# Introduction

I am fighting to reach the next level of math, the one used by Einstein general relativity. It is said that noone really understands the equation. But I want at least to have a basic understanding of the language used in the equation. I understand  it is about multidimensional tensors. I have to let my brain get used to it. And it takes time, having to listen several times to the same lesson

Tibees explains vectors and reference frames with space time diagrams in one of her youtube but you have to pay to read  the text in your own pace in brilliant.org.

# content

### tensors

“the facts of the universe” (Lillian Liebherr)

I have seen this video where Dan Fleisch  gives a very good explanation about tensors. You need to know about vectors as I do but Dan explains vectors to  in case you forgot about these.  Vectors is just one type (rank 1) of tensors in the tensor family. It has to be seen several times to understand the indexing system.

“A student guide to vectors and tensors” is available as a ebook at books.google.it/books

There is a kind of tensor called metric tensor. I like the definition shared in mathworld.wolfram.com/MetricTensor.html

“Roughly speaking, the metric tensor  is a function which tells how to compute the distance between any two points in a given space….,.” (Read more in wolfram.com )

How you can understand the rank of a tensor is well explained by eigenchris in the video below. In his channel you find a serie of tensor calculus videos.

When he continues with calculus it become very difficult if you never have done vector calculus. I must repeat that.

I decided to move this part about tensors to a (and develope it fiurther in) a separate page that will be placed in my menu under learning -math

### general relativity field equation

As is correctly explained in Wikipedia

I found this yotube that explains the general relativity field equation. I like it because of the good graphic representations.

As with the tensor youtube made by Dan Fleisch, this made by Eugene Khutoryansky show graphically how a tensor change depending on curvature of space. Very well done video.

Eugene Khutoryansky shares another youtube with amazing graphics.

Einstein followed his friends Grossamans advice 1912 to study Riemann geometry (“Albert Einstein” written by Vincenzo Barone, page 61) studied  It looks like I have to deal with Rieman geomtry and math  too to get closer to the math in the field equation. I must doe it now and will document this work in a separate page.

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