Schaum's Outline of Tensor Calculus

by David C. Kay

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More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070334846
• ISBN13: 9780070334847
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.9" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

I'm Rating this A THOUSAND STARS

This Study Guide functions properly. If right now, you are reading the title "Tensor Calculus" and wish you understood it someday. But have absolutely no idea what a tesnor of rank zero is. GET THIS BOOK My main goal was to understand General Relativity. But as you know, the mathematics of General Relativity is nothing but Tensor Calculus. I was particularly intrigued by the mysteries of the Riemann Curvature Tensor. The key to General Relativity. As soon as I purchased this book, I started studying Chapter 8, the "Riemannian Curvature" not knowing anything about the previous chapters. Hopeless I eventually turned to chapter 1 and gradually climed up the ladder. Then came my Golden Times in Tensor Calculus. I cracked the mysteries of the Riemann Curvature Tensor and at last I turned to General Relativity. I'm currently studying black holes thanks to this book.

Best Place To Start

This is probably the clearest ontoduction to tensor analysis that is currently on the market. It makes a quite difficult and messy subject seem pretty straightforward. It's best to know your vector calc in and out before attempting this book, but it's a godsend compared to some of the other texts out on the market today. A great guide for engineering and physics students and the price can't be beat.

Great Book

Before I had this book I knew nothing about tensors. Other books were old and useless. This book was very easy to understand and explained everything I needed to know. Now I work with tensors in General Relativity all the time!

A must-have

So far, I've covered the first 5 chapters. Very easy to understand, and plenty of example problems. What more could you ask for?

Good Book, But Hard As A Rabid Gorilla

Tensors are a booger to learn, even with a great guide like this. It's just hard. But this is the best guide available. More completely worked out problems would be nice. A very very solid grounding in vector analysis and linear algebra is required before tackling this book, however.