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Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Max Born is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Einstein's Theory of Relativity about?
A book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born is a Nobel Laureate (1955) and one of the world's great physicists: in this book he analyzes and interprets the theory of Einsteinian relativity. The result is undoubtedly the most lucid and insightful of all the books that have been written to explain the revolutionary theory that marked the end of the classical and the beginning of the modern era of physics. The author follows a quasi-historical method of presentation. The book begins with a review of the classical physics, covering such topics as origins of space and time measurements, geometric axioms, Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy, concepts of equilibrium and force, laws of motion, inertia, mass, momentum and energy, Newtonian world system (absolute space and absolute time, gravitation, celestial mechanics, centrifugal forces, and absolute space), laws of optics (the corpuscular and undulatory theories, speed of light, wave theory, Doppler effect, convection of light by matter), electrodynamics (including magnetic induction, electromagnetic theory of light
Who reads Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Max Born
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 1965
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486607696
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Physics, Science
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (102 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14