From Pappus to Kocik's diagram for relativistic velocity addition

DOI10.4171/EM/321MaRDI QIDQ515294zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors G. Wanner

Publication date 13 March 2017

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/EM/321

zbMATH Keywords

Lazare CarnotPappusrelativistic velocity addition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Special relativity (83A05)

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