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Meaning of Relativity

Simplified version of Einstein's theories that explain that the measurements of motion or rest are relative to the motion or rest of the observer. 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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  • "Sonderabdruck aus der Kultur der Gegenwart"
  • "Generalized theory of gravitation"@en
  • "Einstein papers"
  • "Relativity"
  • "Relativity"@en
  • "Generalization of gravitation theory"
  • "Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"

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  • "Simplified version of Einstein's theories that explain that the measurements of motion or rest are relative to the motion or rest of the observer. 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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "BY W. H. MCCREA, F. R. S. 'THE only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy. ' So Einstein writes on page 2 of this book. Most present-day physicists would agree, and many before Einstein must have held the same opinion. Einstein, however, put the opinion into practice to better purpose than any physicist before him. And for Einstein it evidently meant what it means for most of us today: a theory is the construction of a theoretical model of the world of physics; all the mathematical discussion applies to the model; the model embodies the 'system of concepts', and it serves 'to represent the complex of our experiences' if the experience of the theoretical observer in the theoretical model can be put into satisfactory correspondence with the experi ence of the actual observer in the actual physical world. Classical mechanics and classical electromagnetism pro vide models that are good representations of two sets of actual experiences. As Einstein was the first fully to appreciate, however, it is not possible to combine these into a single self-consistent model. The construction of the simplest possible self-consistent model is the achieve ment of Einstein's theory of special relativity. The theory is found, in particular, to give a satisfactory representation of the electromagnetic interaction between charged particles through its use of the concept of the electromagnetic field."@en
  • "Space and time in pre-relativity theory; The theory of special relativity; The general theory of relativity."
  • "Consists of the text of Einstein's Stafford Little Lectures, delivered in May, 1921 at Princeton University. Includes an appendix discussing advances in the theory of relativity since 1921, and an appendix on his Generalized Theory of Gravitation."@en
  • "Consists of the text of Einstein's Stafford Little Lectures, delivered in May, 1921 at Princeton University. Includes an appendix discussing advances in the theory of relativity since 1921, and an appendix on his Generalized Theory of Gravitation."
  • "For other editions, see Author Catalog."@en
  • "The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind's understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his remarkable achievements. In the same year he travelled to the United States to give four lectures that consolidated his theory and sought to explain its meaning to a new audience. These lectures were published the following year as "The Meaning of Relativity", which he revised with each new edition until his death. It remains a key work for anyone wishing to discover at first hand the workings of one of the most inspiring minds of the 20th century."@en
  • "Simplified version of Professor Einstein's theories that explain that the measurments of motion or rest are relative to the motion or rest of the observer."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Livres électroniques"

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  • "Meaning of Relativity"@en
  • "Meaning of Relativity"
  • "The meaning of relativity 5th ed., including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity : four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity ... including the Relativistic theory of the nonsymmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity four lectures delivered at Princeton university, May, 1921"@en
  • "Die Relativitäts-Theorie / von Albert Einstein in Prag"
  • "Die Relativitäts-Theorie"
  • "The meaning of relativity four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"
  • "The meaning of relativity four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity, including the Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May 1921"@en
  • "The Meaning of Relativity. (Fourth edition with further appendix. Text translated by Edwin Plimpton Adams, the first appendix by Ernst G. Straus and the second appendix by Sonja Bargmann.)"@en
  • "Meaning of relativity"
  • "Meaning of relativity"@en
  • "The Meaning of Relativity. [Translated by Edwin P. Adams. With an "Appendix for the second edition," translated by Ernst G. Straus.]"@en
  • "The Meaning of Relativity Four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"@en
  • "Teorīi︠a︡ otnositelʹnosti : obshchedostupnoe izlozhenīe"
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The Meaning of relativity"
  • "The Meaning of Relativity : Including the Relativistic theory of the Non-Symmetric Field"
  • "The Meaning of Relativity"
  • "The Meaning of Relativity"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity ... : including the Relativistic theory of the nonsymmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity / - 5. ed., including the Relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "Die Relativitätstheorie"
  • "The Meaning of Relativity : Four Lectures delivered at Princeton University, May 1921"
  • "The meaning of relativity : four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 by Albert Einstein"@en
  • "Die Relativitaetstheorie"
  • "The meaning of relativity, including The generalized theory of gravitation"@en
  • "Relativitetsteorien : en populær og ajourført fremstilling"
  • "Teorii︠a︡ otnositelńosti : obshchedostupnoe izlozhenie"
  • "The meaning of relativity; four lectures delivered at Princeton university, May, 1921"@en
  • "Teorīi︠a︡ otnositelʹnosti obshchedostupnoe izlozhenīe"
  • "The meaning of relativity; four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921. With 4 diagrs"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the relativistic theory of te non-symmetric field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity. including the generalization of gravitation theory"
  • "The meaning of relativity including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity : incl. the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity : The Stafford little lectures of Princeton Univ. may 1921"
  • "The meaning of relativity : four lectures at Princeton University, May, 1921"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity. Four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity ; the Stafford little lectures of Princeton University, May 1921 : including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field"
  • "The meaning of relativity; four lectures delivered at Princeton univ., May, 1921"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetrical field"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the generalized theory of gravitation"@en
  • "Relativitetsteorien En populær og ajourført fremstilling"
  • "The meaning of relativity"
  • "The meaning of relativity"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity"@es
  • "Die relativitätstheorie"
  • "Meaning of Relativity -- Four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921"
  • "The meaning of relativity, with a new introduction by Brian Greene"@en
  • "The meaning of relativity : including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetrics Field"
  • "The meaning of relativity : [... including the generalized theory of gravitation]"

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