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From: ian@sdcsma.UUCP (Ian Ferris)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Bogus physics reamplified
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:56:33 EST
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Keywords: general relativity
Summary: more good books about relativity

In article <446@3comvax.UUCP> michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) gives
a short list of good books on relativity theory.  Here's another:

*Einstein's Theory of Relativity* by Max Born, available from Dover

This is another book "for the general reader" but it's much more
detailed than most such books and also goes into the historical
background more thoroughly than any other book at this level I
know of.  If you understand the physics but wonder how
Einstein ever thought of it, try

*'Subtle is the Lord ... ': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein*,
by Abraham Pais, Oxford University Press (Hardback 1982, Paperback 1983)

Supposedly the reader can skip the mathematical and physical details
in this book, but I doubt the validity of this claim -- I regard
working it all out as a sort of lifetime homework assignment.