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What is distance? (Popular Lectures in Mathematics) – Shreider

In this post, we will see the book What Is Distance? by Yu. A. Shreider. This is part of Popular Lectures in Mathematics series. About the book This introduction to the theory of metric spaces carries the student through the … Continue reading

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The Shortest Lines (Little Mathematics Library) – Lyusternik

In this post, we will see another book from the Little Mathematics Library titled The Shortest Lines Variational Problems by Lyusternik. About the book A pamphlet based on lectures read by the author to Moscow University’s schools mathematics club. Deals … Continue reading

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The Theory of Space, Time and Gravitation – Fock

In this post we will see the book The Theory of Space, Time and Gravitation by V. A. Fock. About the book The aim of this book is threefold. Firstly, we intended to give a text-book on Relativity Theory and … Continue reading

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The Relativistic Theory of Gravitation – Logunov, Mestvirishvili

The gravitational field is constructed as a physical field in the spirit of Faraday and Maxwell, and this field has energy, momentum, and spins 2 and 0. In this post we see book titled The Relativistic Theory of Gravitation by … Continue reading

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