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Tensor calculations on computer: appendix
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 10 ,  Issue 3  (March 1967) table of contents
Pages: 183 - 186  
Year of Publication: 1967
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
John J. Walton  Univ. of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

In the main text of the paper [Comm. ACM 9, 12 (Dec. 1966), 864], a FORMAC program was discussed which is capable of calculating various quantities of interest in tensor calculus. This Appendix is intended as an example of the program output. Christoffel symbols calculated for 12 basic orthogonal coordinate systems are listed.


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KOHN, G. A., AND KORN, T. M. Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, pp. 174-182.

CITED BY  5
Jean E. Sammet, The beginning and development of FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler), ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.28 n.3, p.209-230, March 1993
James C. Howard, Computer formulation of the equations of motion using tensor notation, Communications of the ACM, v.10 n.9, p.543-548, Sept. 1967
James C. Howard , Howard Tashjian, An algorithm for deriving the equations of mathematical physics by symbolic manipulation, Communications of the ACM, v.11 n.12, p.814-818, Dec. 1968
James C. Howard, Relativistic applications of symbolic mathematical computation, ACM SIGSAM Bulletin
Jean E. Sammet, The beginning and development of FORMAC: FORmula MAnipulation Compiler, History of programming languages---II, ACM Press, New York, NY, 1996

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  G. Mathematics of Computing
  G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS


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