Einstein Relativity

Silberstein, Ludwik. The Theory of Relativity. London, Macmillan and Co., 1914.
Ludwik Silberstein (1872 - 1948) was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Cambridge University Press in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924. Silberstein was born May 17, 1872 in Warsaw to Samuel Silberstein and Emily Steinkalk. He was educated in Cracow, Heidelberg, and Berlin. To teach he went to Bologna, Italy from 1899 to 1904, switching then to the University of Rome until 1920. That year he entered private research for the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York. For nine years he maintained this consultancy with Kodak labs while he gave his relativity course on occasion at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, and Cornell University.He lived until January 17, 1948. At the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1912 at Cambridge, Silberstein spoke on "Some applications of quaternions". The text was not published in the proceedings of the congress, but rather was placed in the Philosophical Magazine of May, 1912, with the title "Quaternionic form of relativity". The following year Cambridge University Press published The Theory of Relativity, which is now available on-line in the Internet Archive (see references). The quaternions used are actually biquaternions. The book is highly readable and well-referenced with contemporary sources in the footnotes. In 1935, following a controversial debate with Einstein, Silberstein published a solution of Einstein's field equations that appeared to describe a static, axisymmetric metric with only two point singularities representing two point masses. Such a solution clearly violates our understanding of gravity: with nothing to support them and no kinetic energy to hold them apart, the two masses should fall towards each other due to their mutual gravity, in contrast with the static nature of Silberstein's solution. This led Silberstein to claim that Einstein's theory was flawed, in need of a revision. In response, Einstein and Rosen published a Letter to the Editor in which they pointed out a critical flaw in Silberstein's reasoning. Unconvinced, Silberstein took the debate to the popular press, with The Evening Telegram in Toronto publishing an article titled "Fatal blow to relativity issued here" on March 7, 1936. Nonetheless, Einstein was correct and Silberstein was wrong: as we know today, all solutions to Weyl's family of axisymmetric metrics, of which Silberstein's is one example, necessarily contain singular structures ("struts", "ropes", or "membranes") that are responsible for holding masses against the attractive force of gravity in a static configuration. (Wikipedia) Ludwik Silberstein (* 17. Mai 1872 in Warschau; 17. Januar 1948) war ein polnisch-US-amerikanischer Physiker. Silberstein studierte in Krakau, Heidelberg und Berlin, wo er 1894 promovierte (Über die mechanische Auffassung elektromagnetischer Erscheinungen in Isolatoren und Halbleitern). Er lehrte ab 1895 in Lemberg, Bologna (ab 1899) und an der Universität Rom (ab 1904). Gleichzeitig zu seiner Lehrtätigkeit in Rom arbeitete er 1912 bis 1920 für die Optik-Firma Adam Hilger Ltd. in London und hielt Vorlesungen am University College London. 1920 ging er in die USA und arbeitete als Berater für Eastman Kodak in Rochester (New York), wo er 1929 in den Ruhestand ging. In den USA und Kanada hielt er Vorlesungen über Relativitätstheorie unter anderem an der University of Chicago, der University of Toronto und der Cornell University. 1914 veröffentlichte er eines der ersten Lehrbücher der Relativitätstheorie in England (etwa gleichzeitig mit einem Buch von Ebenezer Cunningham), "The theory of relativity", in der er auch klar die fundamentale neue Verständnis der Theorie durch Albert Einstein hervorhob. Das Buch ging aus Vorlesungen am University College in London 1912/13 hervor. Vorausgegangen war ein Vortrag auf dem ICM 1912 in Cambridge über die quaternionische Form der Relativitätstheorie. (Wikipedia)

First Edition. 8°. VIII, 295 pages. Original red cloth. Binding rubbed but in overall very good condition. From the library of Percy Williams Bridgman with his ownership - notification on front free endpaper: P.W.Bridgman - Jefferson Physical Laboratory - Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 1914" - With the later dedication from Bridgmans wife, who posthumously inscribed it to Gerald Holton. With some corrections/annotations by Bridgman. Includes the errata - leaf (which was enlarged by Bridgman as well). The extremely rare first edition in a wonderful association copy.

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Einstein, Albert: The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field, Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691120277
einige Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nAmazon.com Review\nIn 1921, a young Albert Einstein traveled to America to give four lectures at Princeton University, paving the way for a more complete acceptance of his theory of general relativity. These lectures are published together as The Meaning of Relativity, and were revised with each new edition until Einstein's death. Despite Einstein's profession that he thought without using words, his examples and descriptions of the relativistic world he perceived are clear and easy to follow. Unfortunately for nontechnical readers, his presentation requires deep diversions into mathematics often enough to break up the flow of his narrative, and they may find this rough terrain. But for the mathematically sophisticated or the devoted scientific historian, these lectures are profoundly illuminating--Einstein's bright, quiet genius shines through in the simplicity and economy of his writing. Two appendices follow the lectures: the first covers advances and experimental verifications after 1921; the second, Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field, was Einstein's last scientific paper. The Meaning of Relativity documents a revolution in progress and yields to the careful student deeper truths than those found in physics textbooks. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n\nReview\nA condensed unified presentation intended for one who has already gone through a standard text and digested the mechanics of tensor theory and the physical basis of relativity. Einstein's little book then serves as an excellent tying-together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject. -- Physics Today , ISBN-13: 9780691120270

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Bridgman - Hoffmann, Banesh. The Relativity of Size. 1953.
Banesh Hoffmann (1906-1986) was a British mathematician and physicist known for his association with Albert Einstein. Banesh Hoffmann was born in Richmond, England, on 6 September 1906. He studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, where he earned his bachelor of arts and went on to earn his doctorate at Princeton University. While at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Hoffmann collaborated with Einstein and Leopold Infeld on the classic paper Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion. Einstein's original work on general relativity was based on two ideas. The first was the equation of motion: a particle would follow the shortest path in four-dimensional space-time. The second was how matter affects the geometry of space-time. What Einstein, Infeld, and Hoffmann showed was that the equation of motion followed directly from the field equation that defined the geometry (see main article). In 1937 Hoffmann joined the mathematics department of Queens College, part of the City University of New York, where he remained till the late 1970s. He retired in the 1960s but continued to teach one course a semester - in the fall a course on quantum mechanics and in the spring one on the special and general theories of relativity. He died on 5 August 1986. One of the Queens College mathematics department's honors for graduating seniors is named in his honor. Hoffmann became Einstein's biographer in 1972 when he co-authored Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel with Einstein's secretary, Helen Dukas. The pair collaborated again in compiling Albert Einstein: The Human Side, a collection of quotations from Einstein's letters and other personal papers. Hoffmann was also the author of The Strange Story of the Quantum, The Tyranny of Testing, About Vectors, and Relativity and Its Roots. He was a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the short story "Sherlock, Shakespeare, and the Bomb," published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in February 1966. (Wikipedia)

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Filita P. Bharucha Illustrator: . Buddhist Theory of Causation and Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Sri Satguru Publications 1992 ISBN: 9788170303312

New Hardcover . The present book deals with the Buddhist theory of Karma and Einstein's theory of relativity. The book is divided into 7 chapters. Ch. 1 Problem of Causation; Ch. 2 Introduction to the Problem of Causation and Time-Symmetry in Physics; Ch. 3 The Methods of Modern Physics; Ch. 4 Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity; Ch. 5 Indian Treatment of Causation; Ch. 6 The Parallels; and Ch. 7 The Heterological Approach. The book contains detailed Bibliography, an Index and Illustrations. Contents: Foreword Introduction 1. Problem of Causation 2. Introduction to the Problem of Causation and Time-Symmetry in Physics 3. The Methods of Modern Physics 4. Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity 5. Indian Treatment of Causation 6. The Parallels 7. The Heterological Approach Printed Pages: 210. First edition

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