Relativity: The Special and The general Theory by Albert Einstein

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The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an
exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who,
from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are
interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the
mathematical apparatus1 of theoretical physics. The work presumes
a standard of education corresponding to that of a university
matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness
of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the
part of the reader. The author has spared himself no pains in his
endeavor to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible
form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection
in which they actually originated. In the interest of clearness, it
appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently,
without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation.
I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant
theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters
of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I
make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties.