Tensor Analysis
by Edward Nelson
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr 1974
ISBN/ASIN: 0691080461
ISBN-13: 9780691080468
Number of pages: 138
Description:
These are the lecture notes for the first part of a one-term course on differential geometry given at Princeton in the spring of 1967. They are an expository account of the formal algebraic aspects of tensor analysis using both modern and classical notations.
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