E=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation
David Bodanis
E=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation - New York Berkley Publishing Group 2000 - ix,337p.: ill
Part 1 -- Birth -- Bern patent office, 1905 -- Part 2 -- Ancestors of E=mc[squared] -- E is for energy -- = -- m is for mass -- c is for celeritas -- 2[hacek(caron)] -- Part 3 -- The early years -- Einstein and the equation -- Into the atom -- Quiet in the midday snow -- Part 4 -- Adulthood -- Germany's turn -- Norway -- America's turn -- 8:16 a.m. -- over Japan -- Part 5 -- Till the end of time -- The fires of the sun -- Creating the earth -- A Brahmin lifts his eyes unto the sky -- Epilogue : What else Einstein did -- Appendix : Follow-up of other key participants.
Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.
9780425181645
Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955. Force and energy. Mass (Physics)
530.11 BOD-E .PS (PH)
E=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation - New York Berkley Publishing Group 2000 - ix,337p.: ill
Part 1 -- Birth -- Bern patent office, 1905 -- Part 2 -- Ancestors of E=mc[squared] -- E is for energy -- = -- m is for mass -- c is for celeritas -- 2[hacek(caron)] -- Part 3 -- The early years -- Einstein and the equation -- Into the atom -- Quiet in the midday snow -- Part 4 -- Adulthood -- Germany's turn -- Norway -- America's turn -- 8:16 a.m. -- over Japan -- Part 5 -- Till the end of time -- The fires of the sun -- Creating the earth -- A Brahmin lifts his eyes unto the sky -- Epilogue : What else Einstein did -- Appendix : Follow-up of other key participants.
Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.
9780425181645
Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955. Force and energy. Mass (Physics)
530.11 BOD-E .PS (PH)