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Exterior differential forms arise when concepts such as the work of a field along a path and the flux of a fluid through a surface are generalized to higher dimensions.
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Arnold, V.I. (1989). Differential forms. In: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 60. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2063-1_7
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