History of Topics in Special Relativity

## Preface

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The project History of Topics in Special Relativity is going to give an overview on the historical development of concepts of special relativity. As such, it does not give a systematic history of special relativity (SR), but rather a history of the development of individual relativistic concepts used in that theory such as Lorentz transformation or proper acceleration.

## Resources

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| History of Topics in Special Relativity (edit)

Multiple chapter topics

History of Lorentz transformations

History of relativistic four vectors

History of relativistic tensors

Single page topics

History of twin paradox

History of time dilation

History of three-acceleration transformation

Müller's history of relativity

| History of Lorentz transformation (edit)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Most general Lorentz transformations

Chapter 2: LT via imaginary orthogonal transformation

Chapter 3: LT via hyperbolic functions

Chapter 4: LT via velocity

Chapter 5: LT via sphere transformation

Chapter 6: LT via Cayley–Hermite transformation

Chapter 7: LT via Cayley–Klein parameters, Möbius and spin transformations

Chapter 8: LT via quaternions and hyperbolic numbers

Chapter 9: LT via trigonometric functions

Chapter 10: LT via squeeze mappings

| History of 4-Vectors (edit)

History of Four-velocity

History of Four-acceleration

History of Four-momentum

History of Four-current

History of Four-potential

History of Four-force (electromagnetism)

History of Four-force (mechanics)

| History of relativistic Tensors (edit)

History of Electromagnetic field tensor

History of Electromagnetic stress-energy tensor

History of Material stress-energy tensor

## References

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* Historical mathematical sources
* Historical relativity sources
* Secondary sources