The more I think about it the less inclined I am towards 'tensors are the one true way'. Since we can ultimately represent everything (conceptually) as matrices it may (perversely) make some sense to treat tensors as a special type of matrix, embuing them with certain properties. This is right. I think we can have a core representation of "N-dimension
Edward Grace wrote: body of numerical data" that get used as the base for all matrix/tensor class and expression and not the other way around.
Well, semantics I know but they are all tensors. A
scalar -> tensor of order 0, vector -> a tensor of order 1, matrix -> a tensor of order 2. ;-) This is just giving rules to transform one body into the other. And just because I like repeating myself, vector is IMHO redundant.
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