.jpg) Cover of the original 1922 edition | |
| Author | Albert Einstein |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1922 (original ed.) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 978-0-6911-6408-3 |
| OCLC | 884013779 |
| Text | The Meaning of Relativity at Wikisource |
| Identifiers refer to the 2014 reprint of the 5th edition unless otherwise noted | |
The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1922 that compiled the 1921 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University, given by Albert Einstein. The lectures were translated into English by Edwin Plimpton Adams. The lectures and the subsequent book were Einstein's last attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of his theory of relativity and is his only book that provides an accessible overview of the physics and mathematics of general relativity. Einstein explained his goal in the preface of the book's German edition by stating he "wanted to summarize the principal thoughts and mathematical methods of relativity theory" and that his "principal aim was to let the fundamentals in the entire train of thought of the theory emerge clearly".[1] Among other reviews, the lectures were the subject of the 2017 book The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures by Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn.