Contains primary source material.

Essays discuss how the early work of Einstein, a then-unknown patent office clerk, could be told from the work of a crank, the life of Sophia Kovalevsky, the fo

Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered series of increasingly

Advances made by physicists in understanding matter, space, and time and by astronomers in understanding the universe as a whole have closely intertwined the qu

This book explains the fascinating world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior. Told from an experimental physicist's perspective, it