Jim W. Kennington

Summary

I picked up a copy of Nadir Jeevnajee's An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists a few months ago with the intent of skimming through and spending most of my time in reference texts. To my...

What does type (r, s) mean?

I'd like to discuss the notation of the tensor type, commonly denoted \((r, s)\) as it relates to the tensor product. Specifically, the ordering of the vector spaces and dual vector spaces involved in the...

The introduction to tensor products and tensor algebras is often riddled with rigor, in which a mathematician would delight but a programmer would despair. I find myself in the intersection of these camps and while I appreciate notation, a simpler introduction is possible...