from University of Toronto Press 1951 Science: Sense and Nonsense; Pub: Norton / Jonathan Cape 1952 Jump Conditions at Discontinuities in General Relativity (with Stephen O'Brien); Pub: DIAS (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 9, Series A) 1956 Relativity: The Special Theory; Pub: North-Holland 1956 Geometrical Optics in Moving Dispersive Media; Pub: DIAS (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 12, Series A) 1957 The Relativistic Gas; Pub: New Holland 1957 The Hypercircle in Mathematical Physics; Pub: Cambridge 1957 Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy; Pub: Jonathan Cape 1960 Relativity: The General Theory; Pub: North-Holland 1961 Notes on the Schwarzschild Line-Element (with Petros S. Florides); Pub: DIAS (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 14, Series A) 1964 The Petrov Classification of Gravitational Fields; Pub: DIAS (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 15, Series A) 1970 Talking About Relativity; Pub: North-Holland 1972 Quaternions, Lorentz Transformations and the Conway-Dirac-Eddington Matrices; Pub: DIAS (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 21, Series A) 1972 General Relativity: Papers in Honour of J. L. Synge'' (editor Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh); Pub: Clarendon/Oxford See also Synge's world function References Sources Florides, Petros Serghiou (2008). John Lighton Synge by Petros Serghiou Florides, School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin (worldcat) (worldcat) External links 1897 births 1995 deaths Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Academics of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Honorary Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Irish mathematicians Irish relativity theorists Presidents of the Royal Irish Academy Ohio State University faculty People educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin People from County Dublin Scholars of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Irish people University of Toronto faculty