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STATIC INITIAL ERRATA
These errors were present in the initial printing of VDGF, but have  all been corrected in the current printing.

If your copy contains any of these corrections, then it is indeed the latest printing, and so it contains all these corrections.

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DYNAMIC ERRATA
Errors remaining in the new printing.
Latest update: March 2024.

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PAGE xxii, FIRST BULLET POINT

“First, I have made no attempt to write this book as a classroom textbook.”

Correction posted
on
December 8, 2021
 PAGE 127:      FIGURE [11.7]:

Labels mangled by the printers.

Correction posted
on
November 21, 2021
 PAGE 210:    LINE  BEFORE PENULTIMATE PARAGRAPH:

Bold italics for definition of  3-body problem.

Correction posted
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December 14, 2020
PAGE 246:     FINAL SENTENCE OF SECTION 24.1: 

"but be warned that what we call holonomy..."

Correction posted
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February 7, 2022
 PAGE 254:     (25.1):

Wrong font for "R"---should match previous, unnumbered equation.

Correction posted
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July 27, 2021
 PAGE 286:    (29.3) AND BOXED RESULT BELOW IT:

Missing spaces.

Correction posted
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October 9, 2020
 PAGE 309:    FIGURE [30.1]: 

“Horizontal” mangled by the printers.

Correction posted
on
January 7, 2022
 PAGE 316:     FIGURE [30.3]:

Labels mangled by the printers.

Correction posted
on
April 5, 2021
 PAGE 396:     MIDDLE BOX:

Missing space before \Psi in definition of exact.

Correction posted
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March 14, 2021
 PAGE 451:     RIGHT HAND SIDE OF BOTTOM TWO EQUATION: 

Delete "d" from d \theta^j .

Correction posted
on
January 19, 2021
 PAGE 470:      #17(i): 

There should be a Hodge star operator acting on "F", immediately after “and using the fact that”.

Correction posted
on
December 25, 2021