Geometry Is Everywhere — From an Airplane to Relativity
From great-circle flight to covariant derivatives and classical fields: why a geometric object is not its coordinate components.
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From great-circle flight to covariant derivatives and classical fields: why a geometric object is not its coordinate components.
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Explore signals, statistics, Fourier magnitude and phase, autocorrelation, reconstruction and Anscombe’s quartet—with an emphasis on what each result does and does not prove.
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Current investigations include guitar physics, scientific modelling, indoor airflow and numerical experiments. These projects and their repositories are private; selected results may be published here later when they are ready.