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