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For a first rough introduction into tensors, we give a preliminary definition of tensors and the tensor product. The formal definition in the sense of multilinear algebra will be given in Chap. 3. In fact, below we consider three types of tensors which are of particular interest in later applications.
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Hackbusch, W. (2012). Introduction. In: Tensor Spaces and Numerical Tensor Calculus. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28027-6_1
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