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082 | _a530.11 BOD-E .PS (PH) | ||
100 | _a David Bodanis | ||
245 | _aE=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation | ||
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_aNew York _bBerkley Publishing Group _c2000 |
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300 | _aix,337p.: ill | ||
505 | _a 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. | ||
520 | _a 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. | ||
650 | _a Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955. Force and energy. Mass (Physics) | ||
942 | _cBK |