The Meaning of Relativity

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		The Meaning of Relativity
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基本信息·出版社：Routledge
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2003年02月
·ISBN：0415285887
·条形码：9780415285889
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Routledge Classics
·外文书名：相对论的含义

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The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind's understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his remarkable achievements. In the same year he travelled to the United States to give four lectures that consolidated his theory and sought to explain its meaning to a new audience. These lectures were published the following year as "The Meaning of Relativity", which he revised with each new edition until his death. It remains a key work for anyone wishing to discover at first hand the workings of one of the most inspiring minds of the 20th century.
作者简介 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". --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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In 1921, a young Albert Einstein traveled to America to give four lectures at Princeton University, paving the way for a more complete acceptance of his theory of general relativity. These lectures are published together as The Meaning of Relativity, and were revised with each new edition until Einstein's death. Despite Einstein's profession that he thought without using words, his examples and descriptions of the relativistic world he perceived are clear and easy to follow. Unfortunately for nontechnical readers, his presentation requires deep diversions into mathematics often enough to break up the flow of his narrative, and they may find this rough terrain. But for the mathematically sophisticated or  the devoted scientific historian, these lectures are profoundly illuminating--Einstein's bright, quiet genius shines through in the simplicity and economy of his writing. Two appendices follow the lectures: the first covers advances and experimental verifications after 1921; the second, "Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field," was Einstein's last scientific paper. The Meaning of Relativity documents a revolution in progress and yields to the careful student deeper truths than those found in physics textbooks. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'He was unfathomably profound... the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.' - Time - 'Einstein's little book serves as an excellent tying together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject.' - Physics Today - '[Einstein], far more than any other single person, is responsible for the way we think nowadays about material things.' - The Times Literary Supplement -

'Einstein's little book serves as an excellent tying together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject.' – Physics Today

'He was unfathomably profound ... the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.' - Time

'[Einstein], far more than any other single person, is responsible for the way we think nowadays about material things.' - The Times Literary Supplement

Einsteins little book serves as an excellent tying together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject. – Physics Today

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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 ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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