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EAIIYTHEORY RELATIVITY
ER POINCAR HENRI
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Logunov .
The book presents ideas by H. Poincar´eand H. Minkowski
according to those the essence and the main content of the rela-
tivity theory are the following: the space and time form a unique
four-dimensional continuum supplied by the pseudo-Euclidean ge-
ometry. All physical processes take place just in this four-dimen-
sional space. Comments to works and quotations related to this
subject by L. de Broglie, . Dirac, A. Einstein, . Ginzburg,
S. Goldberg, P. Langevin, . Lorentz, . Mandel’stam, H. Min-
kowski, A. Pais, W. Pauli, M. Planck, A. Sommerfeld and H. Weyl
are given in the book. It is also shown that the special theory of
relativity has been created not by A. Einstein only but even to a
greater extent by H. Poincar´e.
The book is designed for scientific workers, post-graduates
and upper-year students majoring in theoretical physics.
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Devoted to 150th Birthday
of Henri Poincare´ – the greatest mathematician,
mechanist, theoretical physicist
Preface
The special theory of relativity “resulted from the joint efforts
of a group of great researchers – Lorentz, Poincare,´ Einstein,
Minkowski”(Max Born).
“Both Einstein, and Poincare,´ relied on the preparatory works
of . Lorentz, who came very close to the final result, but was
not able to make the last decisive step. In the coincidence of re-
sults independently obtained by Einstein and Poincare´ I see the
profound sense of harmony of the mathematical method and the
analysis, performed with the aid of thought experiments based
on the entire set of data from physical experiments”. (W. Pauli,
1955.).
H. Poincar´e, being based upon the relativity principle formu-
lated by him for all physical phenomena and upon the Lorentz
work, has discovered and formulated everything poses the
essence of the special theory of relativity. A. Einstein ing
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