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THE difficulties of the theory of relativity are much increased by the combination of unfamiliar physical ideas with the unfamiliar mathematical notation of the theory of tensors. Some universities are trying the experiment of separating these difficulties by giving an elementary course in tensors to undergraduates, with applications to ordinary geometry and dynamics.
The Elementary Theory of Tensors: with Applications to Geometry and Mechanics.
By Prof. Tracy Yerkes Thomas. Pp. ix + 122. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd, 1931.) 10s. net.
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P., H. Mathematics. Nature 128, 626 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128626a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128626a0