The Meaning of Relativity.

Albert Einstein; Leopold Infeld.

ISBN 10: 0691023522 / ISBN 13: 9780691023526

Published by Princeton University Press., Princeton, N. J., 1988

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Softcover 1988 edition. Text and covers in near fine conditon. Binding firm. Text free from markings. {166 pages}.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Meaning of Relativity.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press., Princeton, N. J.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691023522
• ISBN 13: 9780691023526
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Physics

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.