Conclusions

This book is an “experiment” to demonstrate that, starting from simple arguments of Euclidean geometry, it is possible to arrive at the geometric formulation of physical theories: in the specific case, Special and General Relativity and, consequently, up to Relativistic Cosmology. Our attempt was aimed, above all, at undergraduate students, in particular those of our university courses, to demonstrate that, by a rigorous and extended mathematical development, theories deemed “difficult”, such as General Relativity, can be understood and operationally used. We turned to students, and not to colleagues, to avoid falling into unnecessary technicalities that would have made the text unsuitable for a truly “basic” reading of Special and General Relativity.