Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-FILD-401.09
- Title
- Elective Course in Philosophy: Foundations of Spacetime Theories
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- hu
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to general relativity and to the main concepts of spacetime theories. The course is self-contained, it presupposes no knowledge of mathematics or physics but it requires hard work during the semester. Course schedule: What is spacetime? Euclidean geometry Non-Euclidean geometry Physical postulates of Special Relativity Manifolds Curvature Geodesics Curved spacetimes Covariance and the principle of relativity General Relativity The hole argument Relativistic cosmology Life near the black holes Literature: M. Friedman: Foundations of Space-Time Theories, Princeton University Press, 1983. R. Geroch: General Relativity from A to B, University of Chicago Press, 1978. R. Geroch: General Relativity: 1972 Lecture Notes, Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2013. J. D. Norton: Einstein for Everyone, Nullarbor Press, 2007. here Lecture notes: here. Foundations of Spacetime Theories