Tensors For Inquiring Minds - Paperback

by Yury Deshko (Author)

Tensors for Inquiring Minds takes readers on a journey to discover tensors - powerful mathematical concepts used in many areas of modern science.

Author 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.