Einstein's UniverseIn this centenary celebration of Einstein's birth, Calder offers lucid commentary on the landmark works Special Relativity and General Relativity which deal, respectively, with high-speed motion and gravity, revealing the extent to which Einstein revolutionized man's ideas about the universe. |
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