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Henri Poincare and Relativity Theory
(2004)cite arxiv:physics/0408077Comment: 253 pages.
Abstract
The book presents ideas by H. Poincare and H. Minkowski according to those
the essence and the main content of the relativity theory are the following:
the space and time form a unique four-dimensional continuum supplied by the
pseudo-Euclidean geometry. All physical processes take place just in this
four-dimensional space. Comments to works and quotations related to this
subject by L. de Broglie, P.A.M. Dirac, A. Einstein, V.L. Ginzburg, S.
Goldberg, P. Langevin, H.A. Lorentz, L.I. Mandel'stam, H. Minkowski, A. Pais,
W. Pauli, M. Planck, A. Sommerfeld and H. Weyl are given in the book. It is
also shown that the special theory of relativity has been created not by A.
Einstein only but even to a greater extent by H. Poincare. The book is designed
for scientific workers, post-graduates and upper-year students majoring in
theoretical physics.
