Through several centuries there has been a lively interaction between mathematics and mechanics. On the one side, mechanics has used mathemat ics to formulate t

There is a large gap between engineering courses in tensor algebra on one hand, and the treatment of linear transformations within classical linear algebra on t

There is a large gap between the engineering course in tensor algebra on the one hand and the treatment of linear transformations within classical linear algebr

1. Preliminaries. 1.1. The vector concept revisited. 1.2. A first look at tensors. 1.3. Assumed background. 1.4. More on the notion of a vector. 1.5. Problems -