In mathematics, tensors are one of the first objects encountered which cannot be fully understood without their accompanying universal mapping property. Before talking about tensors, one …

Some tensors correspond to geometric objects or primitives. As I said, vectors can be thought of as very simple tensors. Some other tensors correspond to planes, volumes, and so on, formed …

May 23, 2019 · Here I will be just posting a simple questions. I know about vectors but now I want to know about tensors. In a physics class I was told that scalars are tensors of rank 0 and …

Nov 24, 2016 · In an introduction to Tensors it is said that tensors are a generalization of scalars, vectors and matrices: Scalars are 0-order tensors, vectors are 1-order tensors, and matrices …

Feb 5, 2015 · The short of it is, tensors and multidimensional arrays are different types of object; the first is a type of function, the second is a data structure suitable for representing a tensor in …

Jun 5, 2013 · What is the difference between a matrix and a tensor? Or, what makes a tensor, a tensor? I know that a matrix is a table of values, right? But, a tensor?

Nov 5, 2021 · I am having some confusion over the concept of covariant and contravariant vectors. Most text books on tensors define contravariant vectors/tensors as objects whose …

The use of indices for tensors originates from notation for matrices and vectors but extends consistently and beautifully first to abstract vector spaces and then to tensors and tensor …

Jan 28, 2018 · Both mathematicians and physicists use general tensors, engineers use Cartesian tensors. Most tensors are rank 2 tensors and can be represented by a square matrix.

Dec 21, 2023 · I am aware that $ (0,2)$ -tensors are things like an inner product, a differential $2$ -form, and more generally a bilinear map. I am aware that $ (1,1)$ -tensors are just linear …