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I am not sure if this a right place to ask what is a tensor. I already asked about vectors
in Math section, but I think a tensor has more to do with physics that mathematics,
so I came here.
I am reading A Zee's book Einstein Gravity that students have fear of tensors. I also think
that they suck, are they really necessary? Can't we manage without them?
Zee writes that:" a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor.
But this should not perplex us. A duck is something that quacks like a duck."
I think that vectors are more fundamental than tensors. Vectors don't behave in
multiplication the same way as tensors. You can multiply tensors and the result is
another tensor, but the same does not happen with vectors in multiplication.
in Math section, but I think a tensor has more to do with physics that mathematics,
so I came here.
I am reading A Zee's book Einstein Gravity that students have fear of tensors. I also think
that they suck, are they really necessary? Can't we manage without them?
Zee writes that:" a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor.
But this should not perplex us. A duck is something that quacks like a duck."
I think that vectors are more fundamental than tensors. Vectors don't behave in
multiplication the same way as tensors. You can multiply tensors and the result is
another tensor, but the same does not happen with vectors in multiplication.