Book chapter
Why Tensor Calculus?
Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces, pp 1-7
10 Aug 2013
Abstract
“Mathematics is a language.” Thus was the response of the great American scientist J. Willard Gibbs when asked at a Yale faculty meeting whether mathematics should really be as important a part of the undergraduate curriculum as classical languages.
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- Title
- Why Tensor Calculus?
- Creators
- Pavel Grinfeld - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces, pp 1-7
- Publisher
- Springer New York; New York, NY
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Other Identifier
- 991019312321504721