Tensor

Full Title or Meme

“Tensors are the most efficient packaging device we have to organize our equations. They’re the natural language for geometric objects.” - Dionysios Anninos, a theoretical physicist at King’s College London

Context

• See the wiki page on Matrix Calculation for ideas about where Tensors work.
• Einstein found the simple-looking formula that describes General Relativity in a new geometric theory published in 1915 only a few years after the description by the Italian mathematicians Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita of a new structure for the mathematical foundation that would later be dubbed a “tensor.”