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The principal objective of this chapter is to introduce the theory of tensor analysis. Other mathematical topics, such as the calculus of variations and the theory of functions of a complex variable, will be reviewed in subsequent chapters as they are needed. Three-dimensional Euclidean vector and point spaces are implicitly assumed throughout.
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Slaughter, W.S. (2002). Mathematical Preliminaries. In: The Linearized Theory of Elasticity. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0093-2_2
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