About the Book: Relativity
Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of
relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this book
Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and
principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today.
Unsurpassed by any subsequent books on relativity, this remains the most popular
and useful exposition of Einsteins immense contribution to human knowledge. In
this work Einstein intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into
the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general and scientific
philosophical point