• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: General relativity before special relativity: An unconventional overview of relativity theory
  • Contributor: Rindler, Wolfgang
  • imprint: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), 1994
  • Published in: American Journal of Physics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1119/1.17734
  • ISSN: 0002-9505; 1943-2909
  • Keywords: General Physics and Astronomy
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  • Description: <jats:p>It is suggested how Bernhard Riemann might have discovered General Relativity soon after 1854 and how today’s undergraduate students can be given a glimpse of this before, or independently of, their study of Special Relativity. At the same time, the whole field of relativity theory is briefly surveyed from the space–time point of view.</jats:p>