> Talk to a computer scientist, and they might tell you that a tensor is an array of numbers that stores important data The conflicting definitions of tensors

> Talk to a computer scientist, and they might tell you that a tensor is an array of numbers that stores important data The conflicting definitions of tensors have precedent in lower dimensions: vectors were already being used in computer science to mean something different than in mathematics / physics, long before the current tensormania. Its not clear if that ambiguity will ever be a practical problem though. For as long as such structures are containers of numerical data with no implied transformation properties we are really talking about two different universes. Things might get interesting though in the overlap between information technology and geometry [1] :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry