The ABC of Relativity

Russell, Bertrand

ISBN 10: 0451627385 / ISBN 13: 9780451627384

Published by Berkley, 1985

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The ABC of Relativity
• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451627385
• ISBN 13: 9780451627384
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Ask a dozen people to name a genius and the odds are that 'Einstein' will spring to their lips. Ask them the meaning of 'relativity' and few of them will be able to tell you what it is.
The basic principles of relativity have not changed since Russell first published his lucid guide for the general reader. The ABC of Relativity is Bertrand Russell's most brilliant work of scientific popularisation. With marvellous lucidity he steers the reader who has no knowledge of maths or physics through the subtleties of Einstein's thinking. In easy, assimilable steps, he explains the theories of special and general relativity and describes their practical application to, amongst much else, discoveries about gravitation and the invention of the hydrogen bomb.

About the Author

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.