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The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity /
Tag	Description
020	$a9781475767360$9978-1-4757-6736-0
082	$a530.1$223
099	$aOnline resource: Springer
100	$aCallahan, James J.
245	$aThe Geometry of Spacetime$h[EBook] :$bAn Introduction to Special and General Relativity /$cby James J. Callahan.
260	$aNew York, NY :$bSpringer New York :$bImprint: Springer,$c2000.
300	$aXVI, 463 p.$bonline resource.
336	$atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337	$acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338	$aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
440	$aUndergraduate Texts in Mathematics,$x0172-6056
505	$a1 Relativity Before 1905 -- 2 Special Relativity-Kinematics -- 3 Special Relativity-Kinetics -- 4 Arbitrary Frames -- 5 Surfaces and Curvature -- 6 Intrinsic Geometry -- 7 General Relativity -- 8 Consequences.
520	$aIn 1905, Albert Einstein offered a revolutionary theory - special relativity - to explain some of the most troubling problems in current physics concerning electromagnetism and motion. Soon afterwards, Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity essentially as a new geometric structure for spacetime. These ideas are the subject of the first part of the book. The second part develops the main implications of Einstein's general relativity as a theory of gravity rooted in the differential geometry of surfaces. The author explores the way an individual observer views the world and how a pair of observers collaborates to gain objective knowledge of the world. He has tried to encompass both the general and special theory by using the geometry of spacetime as the unifying theme of the book. To read it, one needs only a first course in linear algebra and multivariable calculus and familiarity with the physical applications of calculus.
538	$aOnline access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
710	$aSpringerLink (Online service)
830	$aUndergraduate Texts in Mathematics,$x0172-6056
856	$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6736-0