Download or read book Relativity and Geometry written by Roberto Torretti and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This high-level study discusses Newtonian principles and 19th-century views on electrodynamics and the aether. Additional topics include Einstein's electrodynamics of moving bodies, Minkowski spacetime, gravitational geometry, time and causality, and other subjects. Highlights include a rich exposition of the elements of the special and general theories of relativity. 1983 edition.