Tensor Geometry
The Geometric Viewpoint and its Uses
2nd Edition
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Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 434 pages
978-3-662-13117-6 (ISBN)
Description
This treatment of differential geometry and the mathematics required for general relativity makes the subject of this book accessible for the first time to anyone familiar with elementary calculus in one variable and with a knowledge of some vector algebra.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition 1991
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XIV, 434 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-662-13117-6 (9783662131176)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-10514-2
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Content
0. Fundamental Not(at)ions.- I. Real Vector Spaces.- II. Affine Spaces.- III. Dual Spaces.- IV. Metric Vector Spaces.- V. Tensors and Multilinear Forms.- VI Topological Vector Spaces.- VII. Differentiation and Manifolds.- VIII. Connections and Covariant Differentiation.- IX. Geodesics.- X. Curvature.- XI. Special Relativity.- XII. General Relativity.- Index of Notations.