RELATIVITY, PHILOSOPHICAL CONSEQUENCES OF

by Bertrand Russell The mathematician, philosopher, and social thinker Bertrand Russell was at work on his classic exposition of Einstein's theory of relativity, The ABC of Relativity, when he agreed to write this piece for the Thirteenth Edition (1926) of Britannica. It makes for an unusual encyclopdia article--it is tentative, somewhat speculative--but it provides an interesting counterpoint to Einstein's own, more technical article. relativity