Tensor Calculus

John Lighton Synge

ISBN 10: 1487573642 / ISBN 13: 9781487573645

Editore: University Of Toronto Press Dez 1949, 1949

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titolo: Tensor Calculus
• Editore: University Of Toronto Press Dez 1949
• Data di pubblicazione: 1949
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487573642
• ISBN 13: 9781487573645
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 140 A x 19 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 426 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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