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  • Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    by Max Born ...
    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    A book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born is a Nobel Laureate (1955) and one of the world's great physicists: in this book he analyzes and interprets the theory of Einsteinian relativity. The result is undoubtedly the most lucid and insightful of all the books that have ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Atomic Physics: 8th Edition

    by Max Born ...
    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    First published in English in 1935, this classic treatment is well known to students and teachers of physics around the world. Since its original publication, Professor Born (Nobel laureate, 1954) continually updated the book to incorporate new developments in all branches of physics, particularly in the field of elementary particles. For this eighth edition he also wrote a new chapter on the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate

    by Max Born ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 20th Century Science
    In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family.Ranging from his time at the University of Göttingen, where Born had his first real motivation for a professional career in science, to the period in Berlin as professor extraordinary, when he and his wife became close ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Restless Universe

    by Max Born ...
    This highly readable introduction to modern physics was written by a giant of quantum mechanics. Gifted with a rare ability to explain complicated scientific concepts to lay readers, Nobel laureate Max Born presents a step-by-step guide to the understanding of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, and nuclear physics. Chemical and Engineering News praised Born's narrative as "masterfully ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Physics in My Generation

    by Max Born ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    THE idea of collecting these essays occurred to me when, in the leisure of retire ment, I scanned some of my own books and found that two of the more widely read show a startling change of attitude to some of the fundamental concepts of science. These are Einstein's Theory of Relativity of 1921 and the American edition of The Restless Universe of 1951. I have taken the introduction of as the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Physics in My Generation

    by Max Born ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Professor Born, one of the most distinguished physicists of our time, has selected some of his most popular writings covering a period of thirty years, framed between his introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1921) and the postscript to the American edition of The Restless Universe (1951). It includes several discussions of Einstein's work, a short autobiography and articles dealing ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Principles of Optics

    60th Anniversary Edition

    Principles of Optics is one of the most highly cited and most influential physics books ever published, and one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this remarkable book's first publication, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted with a special foreword by Sir Peter Knight. The seventh edition was the first thorough revision and ... Read more

    $73.79 USD