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Because it doesn't work together with ADOL-C, claims the programmer
of ADOL-C.

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using the ideas of Patrizio Neff.

In particular, this code should handle real 3d continua, as well
as Neff-style Cosserat shells.

This initial commit only adds a lot of infrastructure.

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new application to test the convergence order of geodesic finite elements on a harmonic maps problem

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