Einstein's Mistakes The Human Failings of Genius

Name: Einstein's Mistakes The Human Failings of Genius
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ISBN: 9780393062939

ISBN-10: 0393062937

ISBN-13: 9780393062939

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hans C. Ohanian

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Fresh insight into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and his debt to scientists who came before him. Einstein's breakthroughs in special and general relativity, cosmology, black holes, the principle of the expanding universe, quantum physics, and unified scientific theory are some of the best-known discoveries of the previous century. But how these discoveries were linked to the findings of those who came before himGalileo, Newton, Copernicus, and Eddington, to name a fewis an aspect of this twentieth-century icon's life and work that until now remained largely unexplored. In addition to having stood on the shoulders of many scientific giants, Einstein also made…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Chronology of Einstein's Mistakes


Prelude: "I will resign the game"



"A lovely time in Berne"



"And yet it moves"



"If I have seen farther ..."



"A storm broke loose in my mind"



"Motions of inanimate, small, suspended bodies"



"What is the light quantum?"



"The argument is jolly and beguiling"



"Suddenly, I had an idea"



"The theory is of incomparable beauty"



"The world is a madhouse"



"Does God play dice?"



"The graveyard of disappointed hopes"


Postmortem


Notes


Bibliography


Index