Jacobians are the corrective factors relating the elements of areas of the domains and images of functions. Perelmans stunning proof of the milliondollar poincare conjecture needed to consider not just manifolds but manifolds with density like the density in physics you integrate to compute mass. The field of geometric measure theory gmt is at an interface of. Surfaces with densities, especially when arclength and area are weighted by the same factor, appear throughout mathematics, including probability theory and perelmans recent proof of. Geometric measure theory has become increasingly essential to geometry as well as numerous and varied physical applications.
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