Tensor Calculus - Brossura

Lighton Synge, John; Schild, Alfred

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1487573642 ISBN 13: 9781487573645

Casa editrice: UNIV OF TORONTO PR, 1949

Riassunto

A mathematician unacquainted with tensor calculus is at a serious disadvantage in several fields of pure and applied mathematics. He is cut off from the study of Riemannian geometry and the general theory of relativity. Even in Euclidean geometry and Newtonian mechanics (particularly the mechanics of continua) he is compelled to work in notations which lack the compactness of tensor calculus.

This book is intended as a general brief introduction to tensor calculus. As treatments of tensor calculus directed towards relativity are comparatively numerous, relativity has been excluded almost completely, and the aplications to classical mathematical physics emphasized. However, by using a metric which may be indefinite, an adequate basis for applications to relativity has been given.

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Informazioni sull?autore

J.L. SYNGE is Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: UNIV OF TORONTO PR
• Data di pubblicazione: 1949
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487573642
• ISBN 13: 9781487573645
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile