by Albert Einstein, Robert W. Lawson
To be clear, this is actually a "popular science" book. The fact that it was written by the creator of the theories of Relativity helps because Einstein himself tries to break it down into relatively (see what I did there) bite sized pieces. To follow the book, you need to know some Math, but high...
PrefaceNote to the Fifteenth Edition--RelativityAppendices:1. Simple Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation2. Minowski's Four-dimensional Space ("World")3. The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity(a) Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury(b) Deflection of Light by a Gravitati...
The aim of this book is to introduce people without a strong physics (or even scientific) background to the special and general theories of relativity - theories that Einstein was the primary developer of. Einstein assumes the reader has passes a "university matriculation exam." What that meant in t...
The aim of this book is to introduce people without a strong physics (or even scientific) background to the special and general theories of relativity - theories that Einstein was the primary developer of. Einstein assumes the reader has passed a "university matriculation exam." What that meant in t...
The rating doesn't reflect the importance or quality of thinking of this book. It's relative... and subjective. It reflects rather how much I understood and enjoyed it, and at that is overated, although I gave it as high as I did because I'm glad I tried and might come back to it. In Einstein's pref...
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