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In treating the geometry of manifolds that were not simply nice flat affine spaces we have paid major attention to parallel transport along curves; the feature of general spaces that distinguishes them most dramatically is the disappearance of “absolute” parallelism. This prompts
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Dodson, C.T.J., Poston, T. (1991). Curvature. In: Tensor Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10514-2_11
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