Not me. Well, I'm a post-grad and my Ph.D. is quite mathsy. That doesn't make me a mathematician (I still believe that the title should be earned and I definite

Not me. Well, I'm a post-grad and my Ph.D. is quite mathsy. That doesn't make me a mathematician (I still believe that the title should be earned and I definitely have not yet earned it), but at least I've done some mathematics. Anyway, I always find it much easier to move from the concrete to the abstract. But once you've mastered an abstraction, it does seem to become "concrete" in your brain and then you can build on it. Thus, with a good background in basic linear algebra, you can move on to tensor analysis, but good luck if you want to jump into tensors straight away.