It's About Time Understanding Einstein's Relativity

In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry. The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades. Mermin's approach is imaginative, yet accurate and complete. Clear, lively, and informal, the book will appeal to intellectually curious readers of all kinds, including even professional physicists, who will be intrigued by its highly original approach.

ISBN:	9780691141275
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Published date:	26 Jul 2009
DEWEY:	530.11
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	310g
Height:	234mm
Width:	155mm
Spine width:	15mm

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