Changes between Initial Version and Version 11 of Ticket #31609


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Timestamp:
04/06/21 09:51:31 (15 months ago)
Author:
egourgoulhon
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Replying to gh-mjungmath:

Mh, I don't know. Manifolds usually don't constitute of vectors. So a vector method wouldn't make much sense there as it sounds to me more like a method that should be reserved for vector spaces only. I'd advocate to rename vector to tangent_vector because mathematically precise.

OK, this is done in the last commit. Note however that saying simply "vector at point p of manifold M" is quite unambiguous and is in line with the terminology "vector field": we do not say "tangent vector field", do we?

This is a neat feature though, and I don't want to block it just because of my pedantry. An alias sounds like a good compromise.

Done. vector is now an alias for tangent_vector.

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  • Ticket #31609

    • Property Status changed from new to needs_review
    • Property Cc slelievre added
    • Property Summary changed from Add method vector to differentiable manifolds to Add method tangent_vector to differentiable manifolds
    • Property Branch changed from to public/manifolds/tangent_vector-31609
    • Property Commit changed from to b5d7a8f800fb496de28a5e89cabac2250b124c6f

  • Ticket #31609 – Description

    initial v11  
    77Vector at Point p on the Euclidean plane E^2
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    9 This ticket endows the class `DifferentiableManifold` with a method `vector` to make it a 1-step process. We can now write:
     9This ticket endows the class `DifferentiableManifold` with a method `tangent_vector`, with `vector` as an alias, to make it a 1-step process. We can now write:
    1010{{{
    1111sage: E.<x,y> = EuclideanSpace()