The Geometry of Spacetime

The Geometry of Spacetime
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9781475767360
ISBN-13 : 1475767366
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Book Synopsis The Geometry of Spacetime by : James J. Callahan

Download or read book The Geometry of Spacetime written by James J. Callahan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity as essentially a new geometric structure for spacetime. This book looks at the ideas of both Einstein and Minkowski, and then introduces the theory of frames, surfaces and intrinsic geometry, developing the main implications of Einstein's general relativity theory.


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