What Are Affordable and Beginner-Friendly Books on Tensor Calculus?

[Curl]

What's a good self-teaching book about tensor calculus? Is Schaum's Outline version good? I heard it suffers from lack of proofs/derivations. I want something that's easy to follow and doesn't just throw things out without at least some sort of derivation/ sketch-of-proof / explanation.

Also, cheaper is better :p

 

[jasonRF]

not super cheap, but very very good is "a brief on tensor analysis" by simmonds. I haven't read the schaum's, so cannot help there. IF you do a search, I believe a similar thread has been on the science book discussion forum awhile ago.

good luck

jason

 

[Studiot]

Aris is good from an applied point of view.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=aris&bt.x=0&bt.y=0&kn=tensor&sts=t