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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, author.

Contributor:

Greene, Brian.

Series:

Princeton science library.

Princeton Science Library ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relativity (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition with a New introduction by Brian Greene

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Oreene, Brian

A Note on the Fifth Edition

Space and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics

The Theory of Special Relativity

The General Theory of Relativity

The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)

Appendix for the Second Edition

Appendix II. Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400851874

1400851874

OCLC:

884013779