Tensor Analysis and Its Applications

Khan

ISBN 10: 1482850672 / ISBN 13: 9781482850673

Published by Partridge India, 2015

About this Item

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is intended to serve as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics. It will be useful to the researchers working in the field of differential geometry and its applications to general theory of relativity and other applied areas. It will also be helpful in preparing for the competitive examinations like IAS, IES, NET, PCS, and other higher education tests. The text starts with the basic concepts and results, which shall refer throughout this book and is followed by the study of the tensor algebra and its calculus, consisting the notion of tensor, its operations, and its different types; Christoffel's symbols and its properties, the concept of covariant differentiation of tensors and its properties, tensor form of gradient, divergence, laplacian and curl, divergence of a tensor, intrinsic derivatives, and parallel displacement of vectors, Riemann's symbols and its properties, and application of tensor in different areas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tensor Analysis and Its Applications
• Publisher: Partridge India
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482850672
• ISBN 13: 9781482850673
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 15D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 382 grams

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Synopsis

This book is intended to serve as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics. It will be useful to the researchers working in the field of differential geometry and its applications to general theory of relativity and other applied areas. It will also be helpful in preparing for the competitive examinations like Ias, Ies, Net, Pcs, and other higher education tests. The text starts with the basic concepts and results, which shall refer throughout this book and is followed by the study of the tensor algebra and its calculus, consisting the notion of tensor, its operations, and its different types; Christoffel's symbols and its properties, the concept of covariant differentiation of tensors and its properties, tensor form of gradient, divergence, laplacian and curl, divergence of a tensor, intrinsic derivatives, and parallel displacement of vectors, Riemann's symbols and its properties, and application of tensor in different areas.

About the Author

Dr. Quddus Khan, PhD, is a senior assistant professor in the Department of Maths., Shibli National P. G. College, Azamgarh (UP), India. He has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes for the last sixteen years. Dr. Khan has to his credit sixteen research papers published in various national and international journals and has coauthored three books, authored three books, and produced two PhDs.