ISBN: 9788120345072    Publisher: PHI LEARNING PVT. LTD. Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 552        Language: English

Primarily intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, this textbook covers both geometry and tensor in a single volume.

This book aims to provide a conceptual exposition of the fundamental results in the theory of tensors. It also illustrates the applications of tensors to differential geometry, mechanics and relativity. Organized in ten chapters, it provides the origin and nature of the tensor along with the scope of the tensor calculus. Besides this, it also discusses N-dimensional Riemannian space, characteristic peculiarity of Riemannian space, intrinsic property of surfaces, and properties and transformation of Christoffel's symbols.

Besides the students of mathematics, this book will be equally useful for the postgraduate students of physics.

KEY FEATURES :

Contains 250 worked out examples

Includes more than 350 unsolved problems

Gives thorough foundation in Tensors
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PRASUN KUMAR NAYAK, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Bankura Christian College, Bankura, West Bengal. Dr. Nayak is also a guest lecturer at the department of applied mathematics with oceanology and computer programming, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. With nearly a decade of teaching experience, he has published/presented many research papers in various national and international journals/conferences of repute.

His research interest includes optimization in fuzzy environment and applications in game theory, control theory and inventory theory.
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