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Born in germany in the latter half of the nineteenth century, einstein was an independentminded student who earned the ire of his professors by not treating them what they considered to be adequate respect when they proclaimed that a thing was true, instead of takign their word for. The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of. Special and general relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Albert einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. There is no doubt that albert einstein has been one of the most brilliant minds of the past century.
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