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by Emile Borel
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ISBN: 0486495450 Dover Publications Price: $45.00 |
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Accessible classic by a world-famous mathematician covers geometry and the shape of the earth, space and time in astronomy, abstract geometry and geographical maps, continuity and topology, the propagation of light, the special and general theories of relativity, and theoretical and experimental researches. 1926 edition. Includes 15 figures.
Unabridged republication of the 1926 edition.
Table of Contents for Space and Time
| Introduction | |||||||
| 1. Geometry and the Shape of the Earth | |||||||
| 2. Space and Time in Astronomy | |||||||
| 3. Abstract Geometry and Geographical Maps | |||||||
| 4. Continuity and Topology | |||||||
| 5. The Propagation of Light | |||||||
| 6. The Special Theory of Relativity | |||||||
| 7. The General Theory of Relativity | |||||||
| 8. Recent Theoretical and Experimental Researches | |||||||
| Notes |