Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics

by Anadi Jiban Das

Tensor algebra and tensor analysis were developed by Riemann, Christo?el, Ricci, Levi-Civita and others in the nineteenth century. The special theory of relativity, as propounded by Einstein in 1905, was elegantly expressed by Minkowski in terms of tensor ?elds in a ?at space-time. In 1915, Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity, in which the space-time manifold is curved. The theory is aesthetically and intellectually satisfying. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441924108
• ISBN13: 9781441924100
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"