Tensor Analysis and Geometry
Description
Dual space. Multilinear functions. Tensor product. Tenstors of first, second and third order. Symmetric and antismmetric tensors. Tensor contraction. Wedge product. Directional derivative. Vector fields in ℝn. Derivations. 1-forms, 2-forms in ℝn. Exterior derivative. Closed and exact forms. Smooth manifolds. Smooth maps. Tangent vectors. Tangent space. Derivative of a smooth map. Vector fields and 1-forms on manifolds.
Division: Pure Mathematics
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