The Riddle of Gravitation: Revised and Updated Edition

by Peter Gabriel Bergmann and Peter G. Bergman

Book Overview

In this thought-provoking book, written for the layman, a noted physicist offers a fresh, nonmathematical introduction to the conceptual foundations of both Newton's and Einstein's theories of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486273784
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Not for the everyone

The author indicates that the book is written for "the layman." I think he's a bit removed from the background of the average person. Although he has skillfully removed the math from some very complicated subjects, the topics are just too complicated to simplify for Joe Average. That having been said, it he offers explanations that I wish I had heard when I was an undergraduate.