Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Einstein’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* The complete ‘Annus mirabilis Papers’ of 1905
* All the major books, with individual contents tables
* Features important papers appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Fully illustrated with the original equations
* Easily locate the sections you want to read
* Special Supplementary Material section, with seminal essays evaluating Einstein’s contribution to physics
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
Annus mirabilis Papers
On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light (1905)
On the Movement of Small Particles (1905)
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905)
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy-Content? (1905)
Other Works
The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation (1909)
The Field Equations of Gravitation (1915)
The Foundation of the Generalised Theory of Relativity (1916)
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
Dialog about Objections against the Theory of Relativity (1918)
Time, Space and Gravitation (1919)
A Brief Outline of the Development of the Theory of Relativity (1920)
The Bad Nauheim Debate (1922)
The Meaning of Relativity (1922)
Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity (1923)
The World as I See It (Mein Weltbild) (1934)
The Evolution of Physics (1938)
Why Socialism? (1949)
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
Supplementary Material
Principle of Relativity (1909) by H. Minkowski
The Foundations of Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation (1920) by Erwin Freundlich
Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation (1921) by J. Malcolm Bird
Einstein and the Universe by Charles Nordmann (1922)
