Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles

Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational PrinciplesThe aim of this book is to present a self contained, reasonably modern account of tensor analysis and the calculus of exterior differential forms, adapted to the needs of physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians. In the later, increasingly sophisticated chapters, the interaction between the concept of invariance and the calculus of variations is examined. This interaction is of profound importance to all physical field theories. Beginning

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