New York.: Springer Pub Co., Date: 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1992 edition. Text and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Text free from markings. {257 pages}. 1992. Springer Pub Co. ISBN 0387978488 9780387978482 [US]

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Springer, Date: 1992-07-23. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1992. Springer ISBN 0387978488 9780387978482 [US]

New York: Springer, Date: 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 9.50 x 6.25 x 0.75 inches. Hardcover edition in Very Good condition. The covers are in great shape though the spine is slightly sun-faded. Department stamps on the edges of the text block. The binding is square and tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. This book offers a presentation of the special theory of relativity that is mathematically rigorous and yet spells out in considerable detail the physical significance of the mathematics. It treats, in addition to the usual menu of topics one is accustomed to finding in introductions to special relativity, a wide variety of results of more contemporary origin. These include Zeeman�s characterization of the causal automorphisms of Minkowski spacetime, the Penrose theorem on the apparent shape of a relativistically moving sphere, a detailed introduction to the theory of spinors, a Petrov-type classification of electromagnetic fields in both tensor and spinor form, a topology for Minkowski spacetime whose homeomorphism group is essentially the Lorentz group, and a careful discussion of Dirac�s famous Scissors Problem and its relation to the notion of a two-valued representation of the Lorentz group. This second edition includes a new chapter on the de Sitter universe which is intended to serve ...