Now, this is could easily be my most stupid post that has appeared here, yet I can`t resist it. The term “Killing Fields” refer to two different things. Mathematically, a Killing Field is a vector field which generates isometries(therefore preserves the metric structure) on a pseudo-Riemannian Manifold. For the layman terms, it is an abstract mathematical construct invented by the 19 century German mathematician Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing. It is also the name of a famous 1984 movie with 3 oscars. Lastly, it is a song with pathetic lyrics(great drumming though) by the trash metal band Slayer from their 1994 album “Divine Intervention” . I don`t watch the movie often, yet the song perennially resides in my IPOD. Whenever I listen to it, a certain view pops to my mind in which Tom Araya(Singer/Bassist) and Kerry King(Guitarist) is battling with differential geometry books to master the subject! And it brilliantly works as a visual mnemonic device for me to remember the pertinent differential geometric concepts (although I rarely need them). Apparently the more wide-stretching/illogical connections you make, the better is your memory response.

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