Concepts from tensor analysis and differential geometry
By: edited by Tracy Y. Thomas
Series: Mathematics in Science and Engineering -- v. 1; Mathematics in science and engineering -- v. 1.
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780123749154
Subjects: Differential Geometry
Notes: Includes index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Coordinate manifolds; title: Scalars; title: Vectors and tensors; title: Special skew-symmetric tensor; title: Vector product, curl of a vector; title: Riemann spaces; title: Affinely connected spaces; title: Normal coordinates; title: General theory of extension; title: Absolute differentiation; title: Differential invariants; title: Transformation groups; title: Euclidean metric space; title: Homogeneous and isotropic tensors; title: Curves in spsace, Frenet formulae; title: Surfaces in space; title: Mixed surface and space tensors, coordinate extension and absolute differentiation; title: Formulae of Gauss and Weingarten; title: Gaussian and mean curvature of a surface; title: Equations of Gauss and Codazzi; title: Principla curvatures and principal directions; title: Asymptotic lines; title: Orthogonal ennuples and normal congruences; title: Families of parallel surfaces; title: Developable surfaces, minimal surfaces.