An Introduction to Linear Algebra and Tensors

by Maks A. Akivis and Vladislav V. Goldberg

Book Overview

The present book, a valuable addition to the English-language literature on linear algebra and tensors, constitutes a lucid, eminently readable and completely elementary introduction to this field of mathematics. A special merit of the book is its free use of tensor notation, in particular the Einstein summation convention. The treatment is virtually self-contained. In fact, the mathematical background assumed on the part of the reader hardly exceeds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486635457
• ISBN13: 9780486635453
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Small introduction to the multilineal algebra

This book is an elementary introduction to the linear Algebra and Tensors. It restricts their study to three dimensions and orthogonal tensors. Their presentation is compact and doesn't introduce a concept that won't be used with posterity in the book. It doesn't follow the limits of a treaty of the lineal algebra, but rather it centers the study of this matter avoiding to enter in messes that are solved in texts more rigorous. You won't find in this text a systematic treatment and complete of the systems of equations lineals, determinants , canonical forms, Etc., but you will be with a very good general concept of the linear algebra along the whole course. Their reading is easy, very didactic, its sections are highly organized and each one of them has a clear objective: no section is unaware to the rest of the book. To read this book you don't need anything. Scarcely you needed something of calculus, and that to understand some examples and does it. If you don't understand in this book the rudiments of the tensors, I believe that you won't understand it in any other one. The book also is full with illustrative examples and problems whose solution will found at the end of the book. This book is a small introduction to the multilineal algebra .