Thankfully though, this three part story features at least a small bit of karmic justice. You see, physicists love to poke "light-hearted" fun at other disciplines. For example, when med students need to do their one, mandatory physics class, they lightheartedly make fun of the poor students memorizing three different versions of Ohm's law: U = R*I, U/I = R, and U/R = I."Look at them", they say, "can't be bothered to understand how to manipulate an equation, what silly little med students".And then, they turn to their own majors, and say "If you want to understand field theory [the name they have given to the study of vector bundles], you'll need to remember these three laws: Green's Theorem, Gauss' theorem, and Stoke's theorem. They are very different theorems, so you will have to memorize all three of them separately, but they are all three very important".But, dear reader, you know what they did there? They just did the very same thing they made fun of the need students for. As any mathematician will, happily, and at this point very justifiedly tell them, all three of theorems are actually Stoke's theorem. And, in a final act of cosmic justice, you know what the best part is? The reason the physicist didn't realize that is due to them not being able to be bothered to properly learn the fucking theory of fucking differential forms properly.
