Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension - Rudolf Rucker

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension by Rudolf Rucker explores ideas around the fourth dimension and relativity through the continuing adventures of Flatland characters. This paperback edition is published by Dover Publications Inc.

Key details

• Paperback
• 160 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 28 March 2003
• ISBN: 9780486234007
• Includes 141 illustrations

Synopsis

Designed to be popular and easily followed while remaining accurate, this book sets out an exposition of the fourth dimension alongside key concepts in relativity. Rucker introduces topics such as curved space-time treated as a higher dimension, special relativity, and the shape of space-time, using Flatland characters as a guiding framework.

Written to be accessible to lay readers, it is also presented as material that may interest specialists, with a focus spanning science as well as mathematics and engineering.

Rackhams Reference : 31X2T1J6AD