Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity - Couverture souple

Robinson, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955304695 ISBN 13 : 9780955304699

Editeur : Palazzo Editions Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Einstein: a Hundred Years of Relativity A definitive illustrated study of one of the greatest icons of the 20th century. This book presents the beautiful simplicity at the heart of Einstein's greatest discoveries, and explains how his ideas have continued to influence scientific developments. Featuring ten major new essays by contributors including Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Albert Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson demonstrates in this authoritative, accessible, and richly illustrated biography. The main narrative is enriched by twelve essays by well-known scientists, scholars, and artists, including three Nobel Laureates. The book presents clearly the beautiful simplicity at the heart of Einstein's greatest discoveries, and explains how his ideas have continued to influence scientific developments such as lasers, the theory of the big bang, and 'theories of everything'. Einstein's life and activities outside of science are also considered, including his encounters with famous contemporaries such as Chaplin, Roosevelt, and Tagore, his love of music, and his troubled family life. The book recognizes that Einstein's striking originality was expressed in many ways, from his political and humanitarian campaigns against nuclear weapons, anti-Semitism, McCarthyism, and social injustices, to his unconventional personal appearance. Published in association with the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the book draws on this exceptional resource of Einstein's private papers and personal photographs. This new edition, published to recognize the centenary of the publication of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, includes an important new afterword by Diana Kormos Buchwald, the director of the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology. The contributors are Philip Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, I. Bernard Cohen, Freeman Dyson, Philip Glass, Stephen Hawking, Max Jammer, Diana Kormos Buchwald, João Magueijo, Joseph Rotblat, Robert Schulmann, and Steven Weinberg.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility...The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle. ALBERT EINSTEIN In 1905, an unknown 26-year-old patent clerk in Switzerland formulated two of the most revolutionary scientific concepts of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum theory, and unveiled the most famous equation in science, E=mc2. Albert Einstein s work in that miraculous year overthrew the prevailing Newtonian world view, and forever altered our understanding of space, time, energy, matter, and light. Andrew Robinson shows, in this authoritative, accessible, illustrated biography, that Einstein s universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics. The beautiful simplicity at the heart of Einstein s greatest discoveries is presented clearly together with an explanation of how his ideas have continued to influence scientific developments. Einstein s life and activities outside of science, including encounters with famous contemporaries, his love of music, and his troubled family life are also fully re-evaluated. The main narrative is augmented by eleven essays written by scientists and scholars, and Einstein s own voice is present throughout in the form of extracts from his writings and speeches, including his own account of his intellectual development.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palazzo Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0955304695
• ISBN 13: 9780955304699
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 256