《数学物理的几何方法(英文版)》讲述了：This book alms to introduce the beginning or working physicist to awide range of aualytic tools which have their or/gin in differential geometry andwhich have recently found increasing use in theoretical physics. It is not uncom-mon today for a physicist's mathematical education to ignore all but the sim-plest geometrical ideas, despite the fact that young physicists are encouraged todevelop mental 'pictures' and 'intuition' appropriate to physical phenomena.This curious neglect of 'pictures' of one's mathematical tools may be seen as the outcome of a gradual evolution over many centuries. Geometry was certainly extremely important to ancient and medieva l natural philosophers; it was ingeometrical terms that Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo all expressedtheir thinking. But when Descartes introduced coordinates into Euclideangeometry, he showed that the study of geometry could be regarded as an appli.cation of algrebra. Since then, the/mportance of the study of geometry in theeducation of scientists has steadily
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