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    Relativity and Geometry: Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series
    Relativity and Geometry: Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series
    Relativity and Geometry: Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series
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    Relativity and Geometry: Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series

    By Roberto Torretti and Mario Bunge

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    Relativity and Geometry aims to elucidate the motivation and significance of the changes in physical geometry brought about by Einstein, in both the first and the second phases of relativity. The book contains seven chapters and a mathematical appendix. The first two chapters review a historical background of relativity. Chapter 3 centers on Einstein's first Relativity paper of 1905. Subsequent chapter presents the Minkowskian formulation of special relativity. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with Einstein's search for general relativity from 1907 to 1915, as well as some aspects and subsequent developments of the theory. The last chapter explores the concept of simultaneity, geometric conventionalism, and a few other questions concerning space time structure, causality, and time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781483147376
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