Can anyone recommend a good book on Einstein's Theory of Relativity?

[niveQ]

Can anyone recommend a good book on Einstein's theory of relativity?

 

I really want to understand it through and through. I don't have too much advanced mathematics under my belt, but I want to fully understand the theory and go from there.

[Brian]

This is actually a pretty good non-technical starting point:

[iain]

Can anyone recommend a good book on Einstein's theory of relativity?

 

I really want to understand it through and through. I don't have too much advanced mathematics under my belt, but I want to fully understand the theory and go from there.

Try his original paper; always a good place to start, you might be brighter than you think as it is quite simple, very elegant:

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/I

 

If you have a basic notion of maths you can follow most of concepts without doing the math.

Edited November 7, 2014 by iain

[Brian]

Try his original paper first; always a good place to start:

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

Some people get bogged down with multi-variant second-order differential equations and such...

[Zhongyongdaoist]

Can anyone recommend a good book on Einstein's theory of relativity?

 

I really want to understand it through and through. I don't have too much advanced mathematics under my belt, but I want to fully understand the theory and go from there.

 

My favorite:

 

Why does E=mc² by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, Da Capo Press

 

Well written, it is an excellent introduction to Special Relativity, I don't remember much about its discussion of General Relativity, but it is probably very good also.

[Brian]

This is Einstein's own book on the topic:

http://www.bartleby.com/173/

 

Max Born wrote a very nice one, too:

http://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Theory-Relativity-Max-Born/dp/0486607690