1st Edition

Tensors For Inquiring Minds

By Yury Deshko Copyright 2026
168 Pages 56 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

190 Pages 56 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

190 Pages 56 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Tensors for Inquiring Minds takes readers on a journey to discover tensors — powerful mathematical concepts used in many areas of modern science. Starting from the familiar ground of numbers and operations with numbers, readers are invited to re-examine these ideas in a new light, slowly building towards a deep understanding of the advanced mathematical concepts which they underpin. The... Read more

Acknowledgment Preface Author bio Chapter 1  Introduction Chapter 2 Numbers and Functions Chapter 3 Arrows and Vectors Chapter 4 Operators Chapter 5 Tensors Chapter 6 Applications of Tensors Chapter 7 Solutions Index

Biography

Yury Deshko holds a Master’s in theoretical physics (with a focus on general relativity) from Belarus State University and a doctorate in physics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research at CUNY focused on experimental spectroscopy and diamond photonics. He served as a research associate at City College of New York until joining the semiconductor industry as a photonics engineer. Yury Deshko’s pedagogical passion led him to teaching, for a number of years, the introduction into the special theory of relativity in summer schools of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.