# The Outer Product and Tensor Transformations

Tensors are mathematical objects that generalize scalars and vectors, defined not by their components alone, but by how those components transform under a change of basis, and are formally constructed from outer products of vectors in either the tangent or dual spaces, which determines their type and transformation properties.

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