Theory of Relativity

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Summary: A standard reference written by a lad
Review: I have to correct the review below (which I wrote myself!): Pauli was 22 when he ended his text. I just learned it. I also learned that Einstein was in awe at the excellence of the lad's review of his theory! Read attentively his exposition of Weyl's theory. A few years later Pauli anticipated Yang and Mills in inventing non-abelian gauge theories, a reformulation, in a different context, of Weyl's. He didn't publish a single line, but, when Yang presented his theory in a semminar at Princeton, before Pauli and Einstein, he (Pauli) demonstrated a surprising familiarity with the idea. Perhaps you can find some evidence of it in the notes Pauli added to the second edition. After all, this is one of the greatest pleasures of reading classics!

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Summary: a great book by a great physicist
Review: This book was intended as a review of the emerging early scientific papers on special and general relativity. This book is not only listing these extremely usefull references, but is also giving a broad historical perspective. The theory, presented in a mathematical way, is somewhat obscured by the lack of any diagrams. You need some background in order to fully appreciate this book.

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Summary: Excellent overview of some very basic problems.
Review: This is a pretty doggone good book! The last chapter, especially the last two pages of the text, provides an excellent synopsis of the long standing problem on the structure of matter. It seems that what is left to be done involves the invention or creation of a different mathematical source which is capable of generating a symmetric tensor of rank two that will successfully displace the singularity thru the proper incorporation of the energy tensor, Tuv. This would most certainly shed a new light on the generation of mass and the inherent formation of matter: Form defines Function, Function generates Form. You Betcha!!!

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Summary: Excellent overview of some very basic problems.
Review: This is a pretty doggone good book! The last chapter, especially the last two pages of the text, provides an excellent synopsis of the long standing problem on the structure of matter. It seems that what is left to be done involves the invention or creation of a different mathematical source which is capable of generating a symmetric tensor of rank two that will successfully displace the singularity thru the proper incorporation of the energy tensor, Tuv. This would most certainly shed a new light on the generation of mass and the inherent formation of matter: Form defines Function, Function generates Form. You Betcha!!!

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Summary: Please create an audio adaptation ...
Review: To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. Arnold D Veness

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Summary: When Classic texts on relativity are mentioned...
Review: Today we think of this text as "dated", but it has become a book that I go back to to find important equations and their explanations. The book by the author of the Pauli group has very little group theory, but the mathematics is "Solid". This one is cheap and worth having!