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The vintage popular science book What Is Relativity?, co-authored by the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Landau and his colleague Yuri Rumer.
Book & Edition Details:
• Authors: L. D. Landau & G. B. Rumer
• Translator: Nicholas Kemmer (an influential British-Ukrainian theoretical physicist)
• Publisher: Oliver & Boyd
• Publication Year: 1964
Originally written in Russian, the book is a classic piece of accessible science communication. Landau and Rumer deliberately avoid complex math, using highly approachable analogies—like trains, rulers, and clocks (as referenced by the visual elements on the cover)—to explain the mind-bending paradoxes of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity to a general audience
PB, 8 x 5", 64 pages of text, with line drawing humorous illustrations
In pretty good condition
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