The geometry of spacetime
Subtitle: an introduction to special and general relativity
By: James J. Callahan.
Series: Undergraduate texts in mathematics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: Relativity (Physics); Space and time.; Algebras, Linear.; Calculus of variations.; Mathematical physics.
Description: "In 1905, Albert Einstein offered a revolutionary theoryspecial relativity - to explain some of the most troubling problems in current physics concerning electromagnetism and motion. Soon afterward, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-437) and index.