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Einsteins Theory of Relativity Rev Edition
by Max Born  Publisher Comments Semi-technical account includes a review of classical physics (origin of space and time measurements, Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy, laws of motion, inertia, more) and of Einstein's theories of relativity....
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Einstein's Miraculous Year : Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics (98 Edition)
by John Einstein Publisher Comments "It is particularly remarkable that a single physicist--Albert Einstein--has such extraordinarily deep perceptions of the workings of Nature that he laid foundation stones of . . .[the] twentieth-century revolutions [in physics] in the single year of...
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General Relativity (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics)
by N M J Woodhouse Publisher Comments Based on a course given at Oxford over many years, this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was made up of mathematics students, the focus is on the chain of reasoning that...
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Theory of Relativity
by Wolfgang Pauli Publisher Comments This classic work offers a concise and comprehensive review of the literature on relativity as of 1921, along with the author's insightful update of later developments in relativity theory and coverage of subsequent controversies. Special attention is...
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Meaning of Relativity 5TH Edition Including Rela
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Containing his four lectures given at Princeton University that gave an overview of his then controversial theory of relativity, this was the first book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. This revised edition includes a new Introduction....
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The Principle of Relativity
by Alfred North Whitehead Publisher Comments Following up on his two previous works, The Principles of Natural Knowledge and The Concept of Nature, Whitehead explains his alternative theory of relativity, which "cuts away the casual heterogeneity" of Einstein's later theory. Dividing his book into...
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Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Theory of Relativity. Facsimile, first paperback edition....
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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
by Amir D Aczel Publisher Comments ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF CREATION USING EINSTEIN'S "GREATEST BLUNDER"?<P>In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating, and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem...
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Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
by Peter Gabr Bergmann Publisher Comments Comprehensive coverage of special theory (frames of reference, Lorentz transformation, more), general theory (principle of equivalence, more) and unified theory (Weyl's gauge-invariant geometry, more.) Foreword by Albert Einstein....
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Introducing Einstein
by Joseph Schwartz Publisher Comments Reprinted Beginners title now published under the new name Introducing, in which we learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and follow Einstein's thought as he works his way towards E=MC2,...
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Introducing Relativity, New Edition
by Bruce Bassett and Ralph Edney Publisher Comments It is now a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity revolutionized our view of the universe. Introducing Relativity plots a visually accessible course through Einstein's thought experiments that have given shape to...
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Introducing Time (Introducing...)
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments The Nobel Prize-winning scientists presentation of his landmark theory According to Einstein himself, this book is intended to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point...
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Gravitation and Experiment
by Thibault (edt) Damour Publisher Comments This book starts with a detailed introduction to general relativity by world expert T. Damour. It includes a review of what may lie beyond by string theorist I. Antoniadis, and collects up-to-date essays on the experimental tests of this theory. Contrary...
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The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science (Dover Phoenix Editions)
by Alfred No Whitehead Publisher Comments An alternative rendering of the theory of relativity by a distinguished English mathematician and philosopher. Three-part treatment presents an overview of general principles, mainly philosophical in character; describes physical applications and the...
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Einstein's Brainchild (00 Edition)
by Parker Publisher Comments Parker enables the reader to see and appreciate the full meaning and scope ofEinstein's Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity withcartoons and vivid illustrations....
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Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity
by J. Norton Publisher Comments Devoted to the history of general relativity, this text provides reviews from scholars all over the world. Many of the papers originated at the Third International Conference on the History of General Relativity, held at the University of Pittsburgh in...
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What Is Relativity? (03 Edition)
by L. D. Landau Publisher Comments A pair of eminent Russian theoretical physicists offer a captivating view of the paradoxes inherent to the special theory of relativity. Written in a straightforward fashion, the text uses familiar objects (e.g., trains, rulers, and clocks) to illuminate...
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Lecture Notes in Physics, #604: The Conformal Structure of Space-Times
by J. Frauendiener Publisher Comments Causal relations, and with them the underlying null cone or conformal structure, form a basic ingredient in all general analytical studies of asymptotically flat space-time. The present book reviews these aspects from the analytical, geometrical and...
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Sidelights on Relativity
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Two influential essays: "Ether and Relativity" (1920) discusses its subjects' related properties; "Geometry and Experience" (1921) describes Euclidean or other geometric systems in connection with the concept of a finite universe....
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