The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition
(Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
Publishing Details
The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition
By (Author) Albert Einstein
Introduction by Brian Greene
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th October 2014
5th Revised edition
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
530.11
Physical Properties
Paperback
200
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
170g
Description
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-co
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
Brian Greene is professor of physics and of mathematics at Columbia University. He is the author of the best-selling The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos.
