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This chapter is a short introduction into tensor fields, some basic techniques from linear algebra, differential geometry and the mathematical concept of tensor fields are presented. The main goal of this chapter is to give readers from different backgrounds some fundamentals to access the research papers in the following chapters.
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Hagen, H., Garth, C. (2006). An Introduction to Tensors. In: Weickert, J., Hagen, H. (eds) Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31272-2_1
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