Ray M. Bowen

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

President Emeritus

Texas A&M University

The Textbooks^*,

 

1. “Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Vol. 1, Linear and

          Multilinear Algebra” by Ray M. Bowen and C.-C. Wang.

2. “Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Vol. 2, Vector and

           Tensor Analysis” by Ray M. Bowen and C.-C. Wang.

and

 

3.  “Introduction to Continuum Mechanics for Engineers”

         by Ray M. Bowen.

 

are available for downloading as Adobe Acrobat files.

 

These books are typed revisions of books which were originally

published by Plenum Press.  The first two were published in 1976 as

Volumes 1 and 2 in their series on Mathematical Concepts and

Methods in Science and Engineering, edited by Angelo Miele.  The

third book was published in 1989 as Volume 39 in the same series.

 

Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Vol. 1 and 2, are also available

as a combined volume from Dover Publications.

 

Feedback on these books would be appreciated.  In particular, If

typing mistakes and other problems are identified, the posted

files will be corrected.

 

Feedback should be sent to Ray M. Bowen at rbowen@tamu.edu.

 

· Download “Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Volume 1”

· Download “Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Volume 2”

· Download “Introduction to Continuum Mechanics for Engineers”

 

The draft textbook,

                     “Porous Elasticity: Lectures on the Elasticity of Porous Materials as                                         an Application of the Theory of Mixtures” by Ray M. Bowen

is also available for download from this site.  Feedback should be sent to the address above.

· Download “Porous Elasticity” 

 

^*Updated and Revised January, 2009