The conception of tensors is possible owing to the circumstance that the transition from one co-ordinate system to another expresses itself as a linear transformation in the differentials. One here uses the exceedingly fruitful mathematical device of making a problem "linear" by reverting to infinitely small quantities.


Translated by Henry L. Brose, Space — Time — Matter, Chapter II, Section 13 (p. 104), Dover Publications, Inc. 1922

Hermann Weyl Quotes

The conception of tensors is possible owing to the circumstance that the transition from one co-ordinate system to another expresses itself as a...

The conception of tensors is possible owing to the circumstance that the transition from one co-ordinate system to another expresses itself as a...

The conception of tensors is possible owing to the circumstance that the transition from one co-ordinate system to another expresses itself as a...

The conception of tensors is possible owing to the circumstance that the transition from one co-ordinate system to another expresses itself as a...