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The meaning of relativity

By Albert Einstein , Brian Greene

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780691120270, 0691120277
LCC
QC6 .E43 1956
Open Library ID
OL18485710M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
967 kB (990478 bytes)
Series
Princeton Science Library
Pages
103\103
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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.

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