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About

• A container that can house data in N dimensions.
• Generalizations of matrices to N-dimensional space
• Typically used when referring to a matrix to N ≥ 3 dimensions.

Variants

• Scalar : 0-dimensional tensor, Rank of 0
• Vector : 1D tensor (aka array), Rank of 1
• Matrix : 2D tensor, Rank of 2

Typical usage

• Tensor is used when referring to the concept of a matrix to N ≥ 3 dimensions.
• Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices are not referred to as Tensors.

See Also

• Eigen