Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later
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Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the 1909 publication of Minkowski's seminal paper 'Space and Time', this volume includes a fresh translation as well as the original in German, and a number of contributed papers on the still-controversial subject.
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"This book celebrates the 100th anniversary of Minkowski's work on four-dimensional spacetime . . In this work Minkowski introduces spacetime as a new fundamental concept from which space and time can be derived. . All in all this is a very impressive work, not only because of the groundbreaking new ideas and the great impact it has had. It is also nicely written and the language is a very pleasant contrast to the dry style most publications use nowadays." (Michael Keyl, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1220, 2011)
"Vesselin Petkov, the editor of the volume, has succeeded in assembling a number of interesting, enlightening, and thought-provoking papers, all of them authored by competent experts in their fields, which illuminate various aspects of the concept of Minkowski spacetime. The collection transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theoretical physics, history of science, and philosophical reflection in a most productive way." (Tilman Sauer, Metascience, February, 2013)
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