Textbooks on thetheory of relativity have been published by several notablephysicists andmathematicians:

Theprimary sources section of the latter article in particular contains many additional (early) publications of importance in the field.

• Lorentz, Hendrik (1892). "De relatieve beweging van de aarde en den aether".Zittingsverlag Akad. (in Dutch).5 (1):74–79.

:For a translation see:s:Translation:The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether. Hendrik Lorentz was a major influence on Einstein's theory of special relativity. Lorentz laid the fundamentals for the work by Einstein and the theory was originally called the Lorentz-Einstein theory. After 1905 Lorentz wrote several papers on what he called "Einstein's principle of relativity".

• Einstein, Albert (1905-06-30)."Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" [On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies].Annalen der Physik (in German).17 (10):891–921.Bibcode:1905AnP...322..891E.doi:10.1002/andp.19053221004.
  • "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". Translation byGeorge Barker Jeffery and Wilfrid Perrett inThe Principle of Relativity, London: Methuen and Company, Ltd. (1923)
  • "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". Translation byMegh Nad Saha inThe Principle of Relativity: Original Papers by A. Einstein and H. Minkowski, University of Calcutta, 1920, pp. 1–34:

:Introduced the special theory of relativity. ReconciledMaxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism with the laws ofmechanics by introducing major changes to mechanics close to thespeed of light. One of theAnnus Mirabilis papers.

• Einstein, Albert (1905)."Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?"(PDF).Annalen der Physik.18 (13):639–641.Bibcode:1905AnP...323..639E.doi:10.1002/andp.19053231314. Retrieved2008-02-18.

:English translations: "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?". Translation byGeorge Barker Jeffery andWilfrid Perrett inThe Principle of Relativity, London: Methuen and Company, Ltd. (1923).:Used the newly formulated theory of special relativity to introduce themass energy formula. One of theAnnus Mirabilis papers.

• Henri Poincaré (1906) "On the Dynamics of the Electron",Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo
• Minkowski, Hermann (1915) [1907]."Das Relativitätsprinzip"  [The Relativity Principle].Annalen der Physik (in German).352 (15):927–938.Bibcode:1915AnP...352..927M.doi:10.1002/andp.19153521505.

*—— (21 December 1907)."Die Grundgleichungen für die elektromagnetischen Vorgänge in bewegten Körpern" .Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse:53–111.**English translation:The Fundamental Equations for Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies. In: The Principle of Relativity (1920), Calcutta: University Press, 1-69

• —— (21 September 1908)."Raum und Zeit" .Physikalische Zeitschrift.10:75–88.

** Translation byMeghnad Saha, "Space and Time" (1920):Wikisource link.: Introduced thefour-vector notation and the notion ofMinkowski space, which was later adopted by Einstein and others.

• E. T. Whittaker (1910)A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity
• Wilson, Edwin B.;Lewis, Gilbert N. (1912). "The Space-time Manifold of Relativity. The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Mechanics and Electromagnetics".Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.48 (11):387–507.doi:10.2307/20022840.JSTOR 20022840.
• Varićak, V. (1912),"Über die nichteuklidische Interpretation der Relativtheorie" ,Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung,21:103–127, Wikisource translation:On the Non-Euclidean Interpretation of the Theory of Relativity
• Henri Poincaré (1913) "The New Mechanics",The Monist Vol. XXIII, "The Relativity of Space",The Monist, Vol. XXIII.
• Émile Borel (1914)Introduction Géométrique à quelques Théories Physiques, Gauthier-Villars
• Silberstein, Ludwik (1914).The Theory of Relativity. Cambridge University Press.

:Used concepts developed in the then-current textbooks (e.g.,vector analysis andnon-Euclidean geometry) to provide entry into mathematical physics with a vector-based introduction to quaternions and a primer on matrix notation for linear transformations of 4-vectors. The ten chapters are composed of 4 on kinematics, 3 on quaternion methods, and 3 on electromagnetism. Silberstein usedbiquaternions to developMinkowski space andLorentz transformations.

• Frank Morley (1936), "When and Where",The Criterion, edited byThomas Stearns Eliot, volume 15, pages 200-209.
• Vladimir Karapetoff (1944) "The special theory of relativity in hyperbolic functions",Reviews of Modern Physics 16:33–52,Abstract & link to pdf
• Lanczos, Cornelius (1949),The Variational Principles of Mechanics,University of Toronto Press, pp. 304–312 Also used biquaternions.
• French, Anthony (1968).Special Relativity.W. W. Norton & Company.Google Books preview
• Qadir, Asghar (1989).Relativity: An Introduction to the Special Theory. Singapore:World Scientific Publications.Bibcode:1989rist.book.....Q.ISBN 978-9971-5-0612-4.
• Taylor, Edwin F.;Wheeler, John Archibald (1992).Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity (2nd ed.). W. H. Freeman.ISBN 978-0-7167-2327-1.
• N. David Mermin (2005)It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity,Princeton University PressISBN 978-0-691-12201-4

• Einstein, Albert (1916)."Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" [The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity](PDF).Annalen der Physik (in German).354 (7):769–822.Bibcode:1916AnP...354..769E.doi:10.1002/andp.19163540702. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2006-08-23.^[1]

: This publication is the first complete account of a general relativistic theory.

• Hermann Weyl (1918)Raum, Zeit, Materie. 5 edns. to 1922 ed. with notes by Jūrgen Ehlers, 1980. trans. 4th edn. Henry Brose, 1922Space Time Matter, Methuen, rept. 1952 Dover.ISBN 0-486-60267-2.
• Max Born (1920)Die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins und ihre physikalischen Grundlagen (in German). Berlin: Springer. 1920. – Based on Born's lectures at the University of Frankfurt am Main.^[2]
  • Available in English under the titleEinstein's theory of relativity. New York: Dutton. 1922..
• Alfred North Whitehead (1922)The Principle of Relativity with applications to Physical Science
• Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1923).The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge University Press. Einstein considered this the finest description of the theory of relativity in any language.^[3]
• Charles Steinmetz (1923)Four Lectures on Relativity and Space
• Ludwik Silberstein (1924)The Theory of Relativity, 2nd edition, enlarged @Internet Archive
• G. D. Birkhoff (1926)Relativity and Modern Physics,Google Books snippets
• Wolfgang Pauli (1926)Relativitätstheorie,Klein's encyclopedia V.19 via Internet Archive
• Bridgman, Percy Williams (1962).A Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.OCLC 530615.
• Wolfgang Rindler (1969)Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological, second edition 2001
• Misner, Charles W.;Thorne, Kip S.;Wheeler, John Archibald (1973).Gravitation. 24th printing. New York: W. H. Freeman.ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. (1200 pages)^[4]
• Paul Dirac (1975)General Theory of Relativity, 69 pages, summarises Einstein's general theory of relativity.
• Robert Wald (1984)General Relativity

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