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A review by vanessakm
Einstein for Beginners by Michael McGuinness, Joseph Schwartz
4.0
I picked this up off a sale table in a used book store and was surprised how excellent it was. This could be the best description of relativity I've ever read. Alas, my grasp is still quite tenuous but I was much encouraged by this quote: "Physicists say they don't so much understand new theories as get used to them."
The book concerns itself with lots of good history on the theory of electromagnetism hence varying amounts of information on Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Newton and Michelson. Most of the book is about Einstein's early years and the discovery of special relativity and his famous equation with very little to say on general relativity, in case that matters to you. Worth hunting down if relativity is making you feel stupid. You'll read it and feel, well, at least not as stupid.
The book concerns itself with lots of good history on the theory of electromagnetism hence varying amounts of information on Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Newton and Michelson. Most of the book is about Einstein's early years and the discovery of special relativity and his famous equation with very little to say on general relativity, in case that matters to you. Worth hunting down if relativity is making you feel stupid. You'll read it and feel, well, at least not as stupid.