Book with Minkowski’s four works, which laid the foundations of spacetime physics

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Hermann Minkowski, Spacetime: Minkowski’s Papers on Spacetime Physics (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2020), 213 pages. The four works are (listed chronologically as they had been presented):

1. The Relativity Principle – lecture given at the meeting of the Goettingen Mathematical Society on November 5, 1907.

2. The Fundamental Equations for Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies – lecture given at the meeting of the Goettingen Scientific Society on December 21, 1907.

3. Space and Time – lecture given at the 80th Meeting of Natural Scientists in Cologne on September 21, 1908.

4. A Derivation of the Fundamental Equations for the Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies from the Standpoint of the Theory of Electrons; this work contains Minkowski’s notes that were assembled together by Minkowski’s student Max Born and published in 1910 (a year after Minkowski’s death).

Free copies of Minkowski’s paper “Space and Time” and the Editor’s Introduction are available on:

http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/mip/books/minkowski2.html