Chapter 15

1 In the case of a fast-paced course, this chapter may be deferred or omitted without much loss of continuity.

2 Other ‘abstract’ examples may also be cited, but for our purpose in this book, this much is sufficient.

3 Minkowski space used in the special theory of relativity is also a vector space.

4 We are avoiding the formal proof of this.

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