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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. Albert einstein was a physicist who developed the general theory of relativity. The ground that albert einstein gained in relativity is well. Albert einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience.
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in november 1915, albert einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular. A handsome annotated edition of einsteins celebrated book on relativity. Relativity by albert einstein paperback book free shipping. It clearly explains what postulates are unwavering and why and then proceeds to show how the other generally accepted physics concepts, which appear at first to be at odds with each other, can in fact coexist. Albert einstein 18791955, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, was born in ulm, germany, to germanjewish parents. Einstein explained relativity, the speed of light, time and space along with the lorentz transformation in this short book. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective that had overturned theoretical physics. An accesible version of einsteins masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself. Albert einstein 18791955 einstein wrote this book for people who are interested in understanding the theory of relativity but arent experts in scientific and mathematical principles. The special and general theory albert einstein full view 1920. Regarded as a seminal work in modern physics, relativity. Thus we can draw conclusions about the geometrical structure of the universe only if we base our considerations on the state of the matter as being something that is known. The special and the general theory by albert einstein 2010 reprint of 1920 first english edition. The manuscript of the general theory of relativity by albert.
Oct 01, 2009 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Albert einstein determined that massive objects cause a distortion in spacetime, which is felt as gravity. The special and the general theory began as a short paper and was eventually published as a book written by albert einstein with the aim of giving. The special and the general theorya clear explanation that anyone can understand by einstein, albert and a great selection of related books, art. By 1916, albert einstein was a worldfamous professor of physics at the university of berlin, and he had seen several scientists and popularizers write books about his special theory of relativity. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. In his special theory of relativity, einstein explained that the speed of light was constant but that both space and time were relative to the position of the observer. Enjoy the embedded colour films even one of a moving light pulse. Albert einstein, germanborn physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the nobel prize for physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
The ground that albert einstein gained in relativity is well demonstrated in this book. Nov 20, 2012 general relativity, or the general theory of relativity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by albert einstein in 1916 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of pages and is available in paperback format. In this short book einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today. He published his first great theories in switzerland in the early 1900s while working as a patent clerk. Page 5 according to the general theory of relativity, the geometrical properties of space are not independent, but they are determined by matter. Einstein does a reasonably good job of communicating the postulates and impacts of special and general relativity.
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