Einstein for Beginners

Schwartz, Joe, and Michael McGuinness

ISBN 10: 0394738012 / ISBN 13: 9780394738017

Edité par Pantheon Books, New York, 1979

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Size: Octavo.

N° de réf. du vendeur 01014136

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Einstein for Beginners
• Éditeur: Pantheon Books, New York
• Date de parution: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394738012
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394738017
• Reliure: Soft Cover
• Édition: Later Printing (2nd).
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science & Mathematics

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Synopsis

Book by Joseph Schwartz Michael McGuiness

Présentation de l'éditeur

Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought.

Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process, we meet scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday, and Newton; learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light; and follow Albert's thought as he works his way toward E = mc2, the most famous equation of the twentieth century.