Minkowski Spacetime A Hundred Years Later [Paperback]

Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the 1909 publication of Minkowskis 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.

PrefaceHermann Minkowski: Space and Time (English translation by Dennis Lehmkuhl)Hermann Minkowski: Raum und Zeit (original German text)PART I: The Impact of Minkowski Spacetime on the Twentieth Century Physics from a Historical PerspectiveHermann Minkowski, Relativity and the Axiomatic Approach to Physics; Leo Corry, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel-Aviv UniversityMinkowskis Modern World; Scott Walter, University of Nancy and H. Poincare ArchivesPART II: Implications of Minkowski Spacetime for Theoretical PhysicsHermann Minkowski and Special Relativity; Graham Hall, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of AberdeenThe Rich Structure of Minkowski Space; Domenico Giulini, Institute of Physics, University of FreiburgMinkowski Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics; William G. Unruh, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British ColumbiaModern Spacetime and Undecidability; Rodolfo Gambini, Institute of Physics, Montevideo University, and Jorge Pullin, Department of Physics, Louisiana State UniversityQuantum Spacetimes: Beyond the Continuum of Minkowski and Einstein; Abhay Ashtekar, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State UniversitySpacetime Extensions in Quantum Gravity; Martin Bojowald, Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State UniversityPART III: Conceptual and Philosophical Issues of Minkowski SpacetimeThe Adolescence of Relativity: Einstein, Minkowski, and the Philosophy of Space and Time; Dennis Dieks, Department of History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht UniversityHermann Minkowski: From Geometry of Numbers to Physical Geometry; Yvon Gauthier, Department of Philosophy, University of MontrealThe Mystical Formulal£è