Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics

by Anadijiban Das and Gaur Gopal Das

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387694684
• ISBN13: 9780387694689
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"