The complete online text of Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in 20th-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history of sci...

Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in twentieth-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history o...

Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in twentieth-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history o...

Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einstein. 2006. 288pp. $11. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN: 0452287847. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The notion that time is not an absolute quantity is still counterintuitive to most of us. Teachers who try to explain Einstein's...

In this work we develop, in a somewhat extensive manner, a geometric theory of chiral elasticity which in general is endowed with geometric discontinuities (sometimes referred to as defects). By itself, the present theory generalizes both Cosserat and void elasticity theories to a...