Category Archives: Special relativity

Complexification of a Real Krein Space. Part I

Introduction There is a rather unusual journal called the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. It aims to provide an open forum for academic and informal discussions of the “human face of mathematics,” focusing on aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, pedagogical, philosophical, psychological, … Continue reading

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From SU(1,1) to the Lorentz group

From the two-dimensional disk we are moving to three-dimensional space-time. We will meet Einstein-Poincare-Minkowski special relativity, though in a baby version, with x and y, but without z in space. It is not too bad, because the famous Lorentz transformations, … Continue reading

Posted in Geometry, Hyperbolic geometry, Mathematica, Special relativity, SU(1,1), Teoria względności szczególna | 3 Comments

When China Rules the World

The title of the post can be found on Wikipedia with additional information. But this post is more personal. Indeed China rulez! Few weeks ago I received the following email: Quantum World-2017 Time: 16th-18th October, 2017 Place: Changsha, Hunan Province, … Continue reading

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