Maxwell's Conundrum: A Serious But Not Ponderous Book About Relativity

By Walter Scheider

Book Overview

Albert Einstein was admired for his unique intellect and loved for his great humanity. This unassuming man greeted passersby in his walks along the streets near his home in Princeton, he answered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967694418
• ISBN13: 9780967694412
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cavendish Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A reader's opinion

The book is really serious and non-ponderous, as advertised. It differs from many popular books on special relativity in two respects: 1. The relativistic effects are presented in the book as absolutely real phenomena, which can't be interpreted or understood as seeming or invented by theorists. 2. The author did his best to explain the mechanisms of relativistic effects, which in most other books are either postulated or derived from Einstein's postulates so formally that a normal reader is plungrd in the ocean of bewilderment with little hope to get out of there.This book is written for those people who are looking for the gist of relativity insted of following the postulates in a blindfolded manner.