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ALFRED ARTHUR ROBB, who died on December 14 at the age of sixty-three years, won distinction by his contributions to the theory of relativity during the early period of its development. His life-work is contained in a book “A Theory of Time and Space” first published in 1914; it is a happy circumstance that he lived to complete a revised edition which appeared a few months ago. This work consists of an axiomatic and logical development of the geometry (Minkowskian geometry) of the space-time of special relativity theory, arranged as a sequence of more than two hundred theorems. It is generally recognized to be a model of its kind.
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E., A. Dr. A. A. Robb, F.R.S.. Nature 139, 100–101 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139100a0
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