Tensor analysis provides the necessary tools for investigating complex phenomena, from the highly abstract general relativity theory to elasticity theory of materials with daily real-life applications. The wide range of applications of tensor theory has attracted scientists from different disciplines. Thereby, this multi-disciplinary interest in tensors implicates a number of challenges for authors of books of an introductory nature. It is all mathematics and yet it is not. While mathematics is the underlying systematic and consistent language of tensor analysis, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians tend to read it differently. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that a monograph on this subject is written in a manner appropriate for its intended readership.
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