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| fixed length control field |
01355 a2200193 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780957389458 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
IITK |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
530.11 |
| Item number |
C69m2 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Collier, Peter |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A most incomprehensible thing |
| Remainder of title |
notes towards a very gentle introduction to the mathematics of relativity |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Peter Collier |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
2nd |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Incomprehensible Books |
| Year of publication |
2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
339p |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
This book is aimed at the enthusiastic general reader who wants to move beyond the maths-lite popularisations in order to tackle the essential mathematics of Einstein's fascinating theories of special and general relativity. One of the cornerstones of modern physics, relativity is based on the concept of four-dimensional spacetime - curved in the vicinity of mass-energy, flat in its absence. Special relativity helps explain a huge range of non-gravitational physical phenomena and has some strangely counter-intuitive (in plain English: very weird) consequences. These include time dilation, length contraction, the relativity of simultaneity, mass-energy equivalence and an absolute speed limit. General relativity, a theory of gravity, is at the heart of our understanding of cosmology and black holes. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Relativity (Physics) -- Mathematics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
General relativity (Physics) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
