Relativity(相对论)
分類: 图书,进口原版,Non Fiction 人文社科,Philosophy 哲学,
品牌: Albert Einstein
基本信息·出版社:Routledge
·页码:176 页
·出版日期:2001年
·ISBN:0415253845
·条形码:9780415253840
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
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In this famous short book Einstein explains clearly, using the minimum amount of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today.
作者简介Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Born in Switzerland, died in the USA. Brilliant physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1921, the same year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
编辑推荐Amazon.com Review
How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? InRelativity: The Special and the General Theory,Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more complex than high-school algebra). Einstein's book is not casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics,Relativitywill prove a stimulating read.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
From Scientific American
"The present book is intended," Einstein wrote in 1916, "as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.... In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler." But it is elegant, in part because of the 1920 translation, by Robert W. Lawson, a British physicist who had polished his German while a prisoner of war in Austria. The introduction, by science writer Nigel Calder, guides the reader through the work section by section, even giving advice on which sections to skip, or at least not to worry about, if you can't "accompany Einstein through the forest of tricky ideas contained in this slim volume." Okay, this book isn't easy--again, in the master's elegant words, it "lays no small claims on the patience and on the power of abstraction of the reader"--but it is well worth the try.Editors of Scientific American--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Review
"He was unfathomably profound - the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."
-"Time
"He was...the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed." --Time
'He was unfathomably profound - the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.'-Time
'Much of the book is a delight.'-Stephen Battersby, New Scientist
'[Einstein] is a far better populariser of science than Stephen Hawking ... you'll feel as though you have a ringside seat at a revolution in human understanding.'-Guardian
He was unfathomably profound - the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.-Time
Much of the book is a delight.-Stephen Battersby, New Scientist
[Einstein] is a far better populariser of science than Stephen Hawking ... youll feel as though you have a ringside seat at a revolution in human understanding.-Guardian