Talk:vielbein
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Incorrect entry[edit]
This item is incorrect. Vielbein is not a mispelling of vierbein. In mathematical physics, vierbein has found its way into English from the German synonym for tetrad (Greek etymology). As a result, "vielbein" was invented to generalize from four dimensions to many dimensions, "viel-" being the German prefix from "viele" (many). It is standard in textbooks and papers on differential geometry or applications of differential geometry to physics. I don't know how to edit the wiktionary to explain this "generalization of", but I can provide several standard references from widely used textbooks and published articles if someone wants to fix this. MidwestGeek (talk) 22:27, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
- I have modified the entry. Any better? SemperBlotto (talk) 05:06, 29 July 2018 (UTC)