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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott
Paperback - $21.95
Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction -- charmingly illustrated by the author -- describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions).
Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines
Jim Al-Khalili
Paperback - $62.95
With two remarkable ideas Albert Einstein revolutionized our view of the Universe. His first was that nothing can travel faster than light - the ultimate speed limit. This simple fact leads to the unavoidable conclusion that space and time must be li ...
Time and Chance
David Z. Albert
Hardcover - $82.95
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of ...
General Relativity and Gravitation
Neil Ashby
Hardcover - $366.95
This volume contains the proceedings of the twelfth triannual International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, the premier conference for presentation and discussion of new ideas in relativity and cosmology. The volume will contain the ...
Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics : Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel
Abhay Ashtekar
Hardcover - $466.95
This book is for physicists, historians and philosophers of physics as well as students seeking an introduction to ongoing debates in relativistic and quantum physics. This title is unique in that:
- it comprises contributions by leading physicist ...
Very Special Relativity : An Illustrated Guide
Sander Bais
Hardcover - $31.95
Using a series of easy-to-follow diagrams and elementary geometry, this visual guide to Einstein's Theory of Relativity explores fundamental concepts such as simultaneity, causality, and time dilation.
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Lincoln Barnett
Paperback - $12.95
In the century since the publication of the special theory of relativity, there remains a tendency to venerate Einstein's genius without actually understanding his achievement. This book offers the opportunity to truly comprehend the workings of one ...