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Classics of popularization

• D1) Albert Einstein, “Relativity: popular exposition. With classical writings on space geometry physics,” 5th ed. (2010)
• Q2) Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld, “The Evolution of Physics.”
• D3) Julian Schwinger, “Einstein’s Legacy.”
• Q4) George Gamow, “Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland.”

Works, thoughts and quotations by Albert Einstein

• Albert Einstein - The Two Relativity: The Articles of 1905 and 1916 (2021)
• Albert Einstein - How I see the world. the theory of relativity
• Albert Einstein - Thoughts, ideas and opinions
• Albert Einstein - Scientific Autobiography
• Albert Einstein, Alice Calaprice (ed.) - The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Biographies of Albert Einstein

• Abraham Pais - Subtle is the Lord …: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein (1982) transl.it. “Einstein: Thin is the Lord…The Science and Life of Albert Einstein” (2015)
• Walter Isaacson - Einstein. his life, his universe (2017)

To elaborate further

Texts at the graduate level, or otherwise more challenging

• Vincenzo Barone - Relativity. Principles and Applications (2004)
• Anthony P. French - Special Relativity (2017)
• Wolfgang Rindler - Relativity. Special, General, and Cosmological (2006).
• Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman - Restricted relativity and classical field theory.
• John D. Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics
• David J. Griffiths - Introduction to Electrodynamics, 5th ed. (2023)

Online Resources in Italian

• Amedeo Balbi - The theory of relativity, explained well https://www.passioneastronomia.it/la-teoria-della-relativita-spiegata-bene/

• Stefano Marcellini - What is and what is not the Theory of Relativity. https://smarcell1961.blogspot.com/2015/06/che-cose-e-cosa-non-e-la-teoria-della.html

• Stefano Marcellini - The theory of special relativity reduced to the bone https://smarcell1961.blogspot.com/2019/12/la-teoria-della-relativita-ristretta.html

• Stefano Marcellini - New major discovery: will it challenge Einstein? https://smarcell1961.blogspot.com/2014/06/nuova-grande-scoperta-mettera-in-crisi.html

• Julius Peruzzi - Time dilation to the test https://www.asimmetrie.it/as-radici-dilatazione-dei-tempi-alla-prova

On the concept of mass

• Enrico Fermi - Masses in the theory of relativity (1923) https://www.asimmetrie.it/le-masse-nella-teoria-della-relativita
• E. Fabri - Dialogue on relativistic mass https://fabri.sagredo.eu//articoli/dialogo-mr.pdf
• Pasquale Tucci - From Newton to Higgs, a brief history of mass. https://www.asimmetrie.it/as-radici-da-newton-a-higgins