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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's the college one mean?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Stokes' theorem. Almost the same thing as the high school one. It generalizes the fundamental theorem of calculus to arbitrary smooth manifolds. In the case that M is the interval [a, x] and ω is the differential 1-form f(t)dt on M, one has dω = f'(t)dt and ∂M is the oriented tuple {+x, -a}. Integrating f(t)dt over a finite set of oriented points is the same as evaluating at each point and summing, with negatively-oriented points getting a negative sign. Then Stokes' theorem as written says that f(x) - f(a) = integral from a to x of f'(t) dt.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's the most general form of Stokes' theorem that the integral of a differential form over the boundary of an volume and the integral of an exterior derivative of this form over that volume are the same. It covers a lot of classic formulas from the fundamental theorem of calculus to Green's theorem, Gauss' theorem and classic Stokes' theorem.

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