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(continued on back flap)Tensor
Calculus
A Concise Course
BARRY SPAIN
“This book will prove to be a good introduction, both for
the physicist who wishes to make applications and for the
mathematician who prefers to have a short survey before
taking up one of the more voluminous textbooks on
differential geometry."—MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews
on the Web), American Mathematical Society
A compact exposition of the fundamental results in the theory of
tensors, this text also illustrates the power of the tensor technique
by its applications to differential geometry, elasticity, and relativity.
The first five chapters—Tensor Algebra, The Line Element, Covariant
ifferentiation, Geodesics and Parallelism, and Curvature ‘Tensor—
develop their subjects without undue rigor. The remaining three
chapters, which can be read independently of each other, are
Euclidean Three-Dimensional_Difierential Geometry, Cartesian
Tensors and Elasticity, and the Theory of Relativity. Both special and
general theories of relativity are reviewed, with introductory material
for readers unfamiliar with the concepts.
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