Review:Einstein:Relativity (T.S.)

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Review:Einstein:Relativity (T.S.) written by Author:T. S.

The Canadian Forum/Trade and Industry/1921-02

Relativity, by A. Einstein (The Ryerson Press). The implications of Einstein's now famous theory are so extensive that the laymen has evidenced more interest in it than is usually the case with theoretical physics. This short volume is the originator's own answer to the insistent demand for a popular exposition. "The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination", says the preface. The average Canadian science matriculant will find his resources and his powers of concentration somewhat taxed. Nevertheless, the sentence quoted gives a fair idea of the rather remarkable degree of success that has attended the effort at popularization of a difficult subject. The general argument in Schlick's work on the same subject may be considered by some to be slightly clearer, but the present writer has not met any other work on the subject which can compare with this brief but lucid treatment of both the general and some special aspects of the theory.

T. S.