Re: non-rectangular div/grad/curl (was: another math question)

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVINTERNET.COM>]

At 12:39 PM 6/11/02, Justin Parke wrote:
> I appreciate the comments.
.....
> [I will] mention that it is possible to transfer the same ideas
> to different coordinate systems, indeed to any generalized
> orthogonal coordinate system.


...and here I was cherishing the very speck of a conception that
coordinate systems need not have mutually orthogonal axes,
 in the general case, without loss of precision.

Brian Whatcott
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