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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's 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 of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein's name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his masterpiece, "The General Theory of Relativity" -- which provided a brand-new theory of gravity and promised a new perspective on the cosmos as a whole -- he set out at once to share his excitement with as wide a public as possible in this popular and accessible book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BN Publishing (September 8, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9569569069
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9569569067
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1540L
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.2 x 9.69 inches

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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics, and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the atomic age.
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Jeffrey D. Joseph

Still not for the layman........

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2005

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Is is an awesome thing to be able to read in Einstein's own words his explanation of these ground breaking concepts. It is not an easy read however. His language is elaborate and eloquent, but to a person like me who is trying very hard to make mental images of the concepts, distracting. I read other sources to attempt to clarify my understanding and found sources on the internet to support the book. The expanations in the appendices did not help either; they were not quite at layman's level as well.

Still, it was exciting to read and have a view into the thoughts of the great man.

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Newton H. Wayland

Still confusing. . .

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2009

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Einsein says he wrote this small book so everyone of college calibre could
understand Relativity, with a little thought and discipline. Unfortunately,
he wrote it in 1916, in Germany (Switzerland?) where college calibre people
knew more math than most current college calibre types. So even though he thinks he's being clear and logical, unless you have the math knowledge you won't be able to follow his thinking. Besides, my understanding is that, even over 100 years after he published the theory, very few people actually understand it.
Kudos to him for trying to explicate his reasoning - but unfortunately simple and clear to Einstein is something different to the rest of us!

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B.L. Lin

Like Science?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2010

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I am more interested in biology-related science, but someone recommended this book. I enjoy reading these 'popular' works by great scientists and this one did not disappoint. While you need an understanding of physics to read this book, the information within explains the concepts very well. The math does get more complex towards the end and was confusing to me.

I have not read the regular edition vs. this one, so I can not comment on the differences. While some concepts were difficult to understand initially, I recommend this book for people interested in science (whether this edition or another edition).

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PGS

This is an excellent edition (2005) with an introduction by Roger Penrose (Stephen ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2016

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This is an excellent edition (2005) with an introduction by Roger Penrose (Stephen Hawking's PhD mentor at Cambridge) and several commentaries by Robert Geroch, physicist at Univ of Chicago. If you can get your hands on it, rest assured that it has been proof read, the formulas are correct, and I have found no misprints. To see how Albert Einstein can get down to the level of a member of the public and interject humor into the interaction is interesting. But don't get the edition of this book published by Ancient Wisdom Publication in 2012, which has hardly any equation printed correctly--it is worse than useless, i.e., extremely frustrating if you try to understand it.

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Bryan Ashby

Do not buy this version

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2011

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Albert Einstein did no write a one-star book -- the one-star is for this version by a fly-by-night operation called BN Publishing.

A legitimate publisher includes a page showing the book's publishing history, giving details of, at least, the original publication, the original English version and the current version. BN Publishing give no such information; they don't even name the translator. They didn't bother to proofread the file they got hold of before printing it, so there are numerous typographical errors. The formulas are very indistinct and difficult to read. The index is omitted. Einstein often refers to other sections of the book by number, but the publisher omits the section numbers, thus making Einstein's references useless.

Amazon's Look Inside feature for this book currently shows a completely different version that has an introduction by Roger Penrose and a commentary by Robert Geroch. BN also claim on there website that those commentaries are included -- that is a lie, for the book has no text at all other than Einstein's. You might think that the website would tell you something about the publisher -- no, nothing, not even an address. Amazon should stop selling their books.

The moral: only buy public domain books from legimate publishers.

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Denise

Who typset the math in this thing?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2010

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I realize that this is a layman's version of the theory, but couldn't someone at the publisher really take the time to typeset the equations correctly? They don't make any sense and they aren't set up right.

Also, although this is translated from Einstein's German version, there are books that better explain his theory of Relativity. He wasn't all that good at it. However, it is an inexpensive alternative for my research.

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Dave

Really good edition of this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2018

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This is a really good edition of this text. I found the supplementary essays and commentary to be very helpful in understanding what Einstein was saying.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2011

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I first read this book about twenty five years ago while still in school. I recently bought a copy for a colleague. Read it if you are not a physicist; Einstein wrote it for us non-physicists. It is somewhat analagous to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time.

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M. West

A thing of beauty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 29, 2013

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After struggling to understand some contemporary popular-science-book renditions of Relativity, I thought well perhaps it might be a good idea to try Einstein himself. Aesthetically and functionally this book was very much to my taste; it has a nice cover, it is 246mm x 190mm in size and each sub-section is small and starts on a new page - great for someone like me whose relevant mental capacities are quite inadequate. There are a few typos in my copy but they were not too irritating nor unsurvivable in terms of inferring the text's meaning. Presently I am only interested in understanding the particular, or "Special" Relativity, and I am not commenting on the book's text on General Relativity. Einstein shows us there is a contradiction in the physics at hand, and then with some quite beautiful and breath-taking reasoning leads us to spectacular new ways of thinking which resolve the issue. I'm slightly baffled as to how anyone could have bought "W=v+w" in the first place, but hindsight and sitting next to Einstein in the exam can lead one to conceit.

mrp

Buy this book, but NOT this version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 20, 2014

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This book by Albert Einstein is a wonderfully written explanation of his revolutionary ideas. It is aimed at non-experts and is as such very readable, though be warned that it does contain some equations. This book will allow you to gain some insight into one of the most groundbreaking scientific achievements of the 20th century, and you owe it to yourself to read.

HOWEVER, you also owe it to yourself to read a different version than this sorry excuse for a book. This edition is an insult to the care with which Einstein have attempted to explain his ideas. You will find obvious spelling mistakes, even in the titles for the sections, you will find equations of so poor resolution that they are completely illegible, and you will find references to chapters that aren't even numbered, leaving you confused as to which chapter was actually referenced.
Not only that, but the layout is very ugly as well, with terribly spaced lines and line breaks, and weird irregularities in the mathematical notation. This so-called book is a disgrace, and I hope no one ever buys it again.
As for me, I'm going to throw it out and find another edition that is actually readable.

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breakfast_legs

by arguably the most intelligent people to ever live

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 12, 2017

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Well what can you say really. Two of the most important scientific discoveries ever made, by arguably the most intelligent people to ever live, presented in a super accessible language that can be read and understood by anyone. Five stars is simply not enough for a work of this genius

major_tom3

Horribly typeset and not proof-read at all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 19, 2012

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This is a manuscript that has undergone no proof-reading whatsoever and is littered with errors which go beyond mere typos. I suspect it has been scanned using OCR, given the nature of the errors. For example, a fragment that should have read, "clocks and material points under the influence of the gravitational field" is rendered "docks and material points tinder the... ."
Likewise the (few) algebraic equations are odd: 1 is often rendered as I; primed variables are depicted with superscript 1; variables v and V in the same equation are conflated; omega and rho are replaced with w and p and so on.

Aside from this, the book is an attempt at explaining relativity in a non-mathematical way - a brave undertaking. Some of the arguments made in the book might still be opaque to readers with no grounding in classical mechanics.

Finally I should say that the poor quality of the manuscript is at least commensurate with the very low price, so you could say that I got what I paid for.

bobby

relativity: the special and genaral theory by A. Einstein

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 18, 2012

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This book covers both the theories by einstein himself...but aimed at the reasonably educated layman.It,s very enjoyable - aided by einsteins iminently readable style and will imbue you with an insight into both theories.

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