Relativity and Geometry
：Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series
Publication subTitle ：Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series
Author： Torretti Roberto;Bunge Mario
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781483147376
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080267739
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780080267739
Subject： O412.1 relativistic
Keyword： 物理学,机械、仪表工业,能源与动力工程
Language： ENG
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Description
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.