Spacetime: Minkowski's Papers on Spacetime Physics

by Hermann Minkowski

Not only the general public, but even students of physics appear to believe that the physics concept of spacetime was introduced by Einstein. This is both unfortunate and unfair. It was Hermann Minkowski (Einstein's mathematics professor) who announced the new four-dimensional (spacetime) view of the world in 1908, which he deduced from experimental physics by decoding the profound message hidden in the failed experiments designed to discover absolute...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192776386X
• ISBN13: 9781927763865
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"