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E=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Berkley Publishing Group 2000Description: ix,337p.: illISBN:
  • 9780425181645
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.11 BOD-E .PS (PH)
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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