{"product_id":"relativity-and-geometry-dover-books-on-physics-0486690466","title":"Relativity and Geometry (Dover Books on Physics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0486690466\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Torretti, Roberto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly in this century, it was shown that the new non-Newtonian physics - known as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity - rested on a new, non-Euclidean geometry, which incorporated time and space into a unified \"chronogeometric\" structure. This high-level study elucidates the motivation and significance of the changes in physical geometry brought about by Einstein, in both the first and the second phase of Relativity.After a discussion of Newtonian principles and 19th-century views on electrodynamics and the aether, the author offers illuminating expositions of Einstein's electrodynamics of moving bodies, Minkowski spacetime, Einstein's quest for a theory of gravity, gravitational geometry, the concept of simultaneity, time and causality and other topics. An important Appendix - designed to define spacetime curvature - considers differentiable manifolds, fiber bundles, linear connections and useful formulae.Relativity continues to be a major focus of interest for physicists, mathematicians and philosophers of science. This highly regarded work offers them a rich, \"historico-critical\" exposition - emphasizing geometrical ideas - of the elements of the Special and General Theory of Relativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865953337632,"sku":"NEW0486690466","price":27.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41uk26TPePL.jpg?v=1781670512","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/relativity-and-geometry-dover-books-on-physics-0486690466","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}