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The Meaning of Relativity Albert Einstein

The Meaning of Relativity By Albert Einstein

The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein


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Containing his four lectures given at Princeton University that gave an overview of his then controversial theory of relativity, this was the first book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. This revised edition includes a new Introduction.

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The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition by Albert Einstein

In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures available under the title The Meaning of Relativity, the first book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. As subsequent editions were brought out by the Press, Einstein included new material amplifying the theory. A revised version of the appendix Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field, added to the posthumous edition of 1956, was Einstein's last scientific paper.

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A condensed unified presentation intended for one who has already gone through a standard text and digested the mechanics of tensor theory and the physical basis of relativity. Einstein's little book then serves as an excellent tying-together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject.--Physics Today

About Albert Einstein

Brian Greene is Professor of Physics and of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is the author of the best-selling The Elegant Universe and, most recently, The Fabric of the Cosmos.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Brian Greene vii A Note on the Fifth Edition xxv SPACE AND TIME IN PRE-RELATIVITY PHYSICS 1 THE THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY 24 THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY 55 THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY (CONTINUED) 79 APPENDIX FOR THE SECOND EDITION 109 APPENDIX II. RELATIVISTIC THEORY OF THE NON-SYMMETRIC FIELD 133 Index 167

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CIN0691120277G
9780691120270
0691120277
The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition by Albert Einstein
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Princeton University Press
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