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Maybe call it "The Mathematics of Relativity"? It works well as an outline from my point of view, but I think you have to assume the reader already understands
by powera 5y ago
Maybe call it "The Mathematics of Relativity"?
It works well as an outline from my point of view, but I think you have to assume the reader already understands the Lagrangian in classical physics (which is a stretch for even the comparatively well-educated Hacker News audience). Also, somewhere around 3.5 it gets too dense with material I don't already know. (Christoffel symbols? Riemann curvature tensor?)
And then in the General Relativity section, there's simply too much material covered for any of it to be explained in depth beyond the necessary equations. I would drop the fluids (at a minimum) to give more space for other topics.