The Geometry of Time (Paperback)

1 Introduction
2 The World of Space and Time
2.1 Time-tables
2.2 Surveying space-time
2.3 Physical prerequisites of geometry
3 Reflection and Collision
3.1 Geometry and reflection
3.2 The reflection of mechanical motion
4 The Relativity Principle of Mechanics and Wave Propagation
5 Relativity Theory and its Paradoxes
5.1 Pseudo-Euclidean geometry
5.2 Einstein's mechanics
5.3 Energy
5.4 Kinematic peculiarities .
5.5 Aberration and Fresnel's paradox .
5.6 The net
5.7 Faster than light
6 The Circle Disguised as Hyperbola
7 Curvature
7.1 Spheres and hyperbolic shells .
7.2 The universe
8 The Projective Origin of the Geometries of the Plane
9 The Nine Geometries of the Plane
10 General Remarks
10.1 The theory of relativity .
10.2 Geometry and physics
A Reections
B Transformations
B.1 Coordinates
B.2 Inertial reference systems
B.3 Riemannian spaces, Einstein worlds
C Projective Geometry
C.1 Algebra .
C.2 Projective maps
C.3 Conic sections
D The Transition from the Projective to the Metrical Plane
D.1 Polarity
D.2 Reection
D.3 Velocity space
D.4 Circles and peripheries
D.5 Two examples
E The Metrical Plane
E.1 Classi_cation
E.2 The Metric
Exercises
References
Glossary