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urbana
May24-09, 02:15 PM
Can anyone reccomend a good introductory text on tensor analysis? My college has neither a GR nor a tensor analysis course but i'd still like to read a good introductory text to prepare for an independent research project.

Daverz
May24-09, 05:22 PM
Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity has a good introduction to tensors.

atyy
May24-09, 09:36 PM
I found Schutz very hard on tensors (but I liked his physics part). I liked Crampin and Pirani http://books.google.com/books?id=iDfk7bjI5qAC.

elect_eng
May25-09, 08:40 AM
Can anyone reccomend a good introductory text on tensor analysis? My college has neither a GR nor a tensor analysis course but i'd still like to read a good introductory text to prepare for an independent research project.

An Introduction to General Relativity, Spacetime and Geometry, by Sean M. Carroll

The notes that the text is based on can be found at this link, so you can get an idea if this is what you are looking for. However, the text is much better than the notes.

http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/

Someone here also posted a link to GR lectures and notes. This includes a good introduction to tensors.

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/514/

de_brook
May25-09, 02:16 PM
I can recommend 'Tensor Theory' by I.S Sokolnikoff. It is a very good text.