Prof. Yaakov Friedman of the Jerusalem College of Technology - Lev Academic Center was born in Munkatch, USSR. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow University in 1971 and got his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1979. He worked for eight years at the University of California, Los Angeles and Irvine. Since that time, he has worked at the Jerusalem College of Technology as a lecturer, the rector, the vice-president for research and the head of the research authority. He initiated and was R&D director of several high-tech start-ups and companies. Prof. Friedman's research, published in about 100 papers, is in pure and applied mathematics, theoretical and applied statistics, and mathematical, theoretical and experimental physics. His current research interest is the novel approach to dynamics presented in this book, the theory's predictions, and experimental testing of them. This theory has the potential to give new insights into understanding microscopic behavior.

Dr. TzviScarr received his Master's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Bar Ilan University, Israel, in 2000. He has taught and done research at the Jerusalem College of Technology since 1997. His doctoral research was in equivariant topology and set-theoretic forcing. In 2002, he turned to mathematical physics and began his collaboration with Yaakov Friedman, assisting with the writing of the book Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls. Over the past twenty years, he has developed mathematical models for special relativity, general relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. His research has focused on the use of a minimal number of assumptions as well as the unification of disparate areas in physics.

Uses a simple, physically motivated action for relativistic dynamics

Unites gravity, electromagnetism, optics, quantum effects

Obtains all general relativity effects without curving spacetime

1. Introduction.- 2. Classical Dynamics.- 3. The Lorentz Transformations and Minkowski Space.- 4. The Geometric Model of Relativistic Dynamics.- 5. The Electromagnetic Field in Vacuum.- 6. The Gravitational Field.- 7. Motion of Light and Charges in Isotropic Media .- 8. Spin and Complexified Minkowski Spacetime.- 9. The Prepotential.