• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    A tensor is a special box of numbers that doesn’t change under coordinate transformation.

    • Eq0@literature.cafe
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      4 hours ago

      Where does this definition come from?

      All the geometric definitions of tensors I have met always assumed a base, such that a change of coordinate or of parametrization would change the values of the tensor. Unless you define the tensor by its action instead of its values?

    • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 hours ago

      Isn’t a tensor the generalization of scalar, vector matrix and so on? (PLUS the invariance under coordinate transforms?)

      A box would be 3-dimensional indicating that tensors have 3 indices when in reality they have n-indices. Ir am i reading it wrong?