title: Introduction to Spacetime: A First Course on Relativity
author:  Bertel Laurent 
description: The theory of relativity is tackled directly in this book, dispensing with the need to establish the insufficiency of Newtonian mechanics. This book takes advantage from the start of the geometrical nature of the relativity theory. The reader is assumed to be familiar with vector calculus in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space. The book is based on course material delivered at Stockholm University over a five-year period, and is intended to be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students in astrophysics and astronomy.
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  **Einstein’s Space-Time**
  
  
  **An Introduction to Special**
  
  
  **and General Relativity**
  
  
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  **Einstein’s Space-Time**
  
  
  **An Introduction to Special**
  
  
  **and General Relativity**
  
  
  **Rafael Ferraro**
  
  
  _Universidad de Buenos Aires_
  
  
  _Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas_ _(República
  Argentina)_
  
  
  Rafael Ferraro
  
  
  Universidad de Buenos Aires
  
  
  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (República
  Argentina) Email: ferraro@iafe.uba.ar
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2007923177
  
  
  ISBN 978-0-387-69946-2
  
  
  eISBN 978-0-387-69947-9
  
  
  © 2007 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC
  
  
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