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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814251403321

Autore

Einstein Albert <1879-1955>

Titolo

The Meaning of Relativity : Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field - Fifth Edition / / Albert Einstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014]

©1945

ISBN

1-4008-5187-4

Edizione

[Fifth edition with a New introduction by Brian Greene]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Princeton Science Library ; ; 32

Altri autori (Persone)

GreeneBrian

Disciplina

530.11

Soggetti

Relativity (Physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Oreene, Brian -- A Note on the Fifth Edition -- Space and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics -- The Theory of Special Relativity -- The General Theory of Relativity -- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued) -- Appendix for the Second Edition -- Appendix II. Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.