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Einstein's widely celebrated Special Relativity is a founding pillar of modern physics, which overturns fundamental assumptions about the nature of space and time. This class is intended to introduce the mathematical tools and physical insight necessary to understand Special Relativity from a modern standpoint. We will cover vector spaces, inner products, the structure of spacetime (with the physical reasoning used to obtain this structure) and implications/applications, such as the Lorentz Transformations, the twin "paradox" and $$E= mc^2$$. Along the way, we'll introduce many concepts fundamental to modern physics and mathematics. The class should be quick but accessible.