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Author(s):
J. W. Schutz
Title:
Foundations of special relativity: Kinematic axioms for Minkowski space-time
Additional book information:
Lecture Notes in Mathematics, No. 361, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1973, xx+314 pp.
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Patrick
Suppes
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
82
(1976),
459-462.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-14044-X
PII:
S 0002-9904(1976)14044-X
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