Re: Kick ass reference on Tensors
From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:31:18 GMT
"GR_GR" <nyb@colorado.edu> wrote in message news:cvsb1d$o15$1@peabody.colorado.edu...
> A friend loaned me a Schaum's Outline:
> Tensor Analysis, David C Kay.
>
> This book rocks!
>
> If one wants to learn tensor analysis in component form as preparation
> for SR, GR and fluid mechanics, this text is perfect (IMO).
Yes, it rocks, but... (quoting myself)
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?threadm=n_Wlb.101694$8D7.4693020@phobos.telenet-ops.be
| I have a few Schaum's'. Some are good, but there is one
| thing that I find very annoying about them - specially about
| the edition on Tensor Calculus (David C. Kay) that I have.
| A typical chapter has a few short lines with 'theory' and
| 'definitions'. Fine. But then everything else, specially the
| important theorems and applications, is casted into a
| mangled mix of 'examples', 'solved problems',
| 'supplementary problems' and 'answers to suppl. prob.',
| all referring to and pointing at each other. This results in
| a book that has everything you need, and really puts you
| at work. But it totally lacks overview. Finding an important
| theorem to be hidden away as some supplementary problem
| is not really what I am looking for in a book...
| Just my toppence...
Dirk Vdm
>
> Do any of you out there have suggestions for other good introductory to
> intermediate texts (free or otherwise) that introduces tensor analysis?
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