Einstein's Cosmos. How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. - Kaku Michio
How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
KORTE INHOUD
An insightful new book putting Einstein's work in a contemporary context Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or a job, who was written off by his professors as a hopeless loser, could to dare to scale the heights he reached. In this enlightening book Michio Kaku reasseses Einstein's work by centering on his three great theories - special relativity, general relativity and the Unified Field Theory. The first yielded the equation E =mc2 which is now such a fixture in our culture that it is practically a ubiquitous slogan. But the subsequent theories led to the Big Bang theory and have changed irrevocably the way we perceive time and space. Michio Kaku gives a new, refreshing look at the pioneering work of Einstein, giving a more accurate portrayal of his enduring legacy than previous biographies. As today's advanced physicists continue their intense search to fulfill Einste...
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2005Uitgever: Orion Publishing Group, Limited320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 075381904XISBN-13: 9780753819043Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: xviij, 204pp. Very fine copy. London, Orion Publishing Co. [Phoenix]. 2005 [Auteur: KAKU, MICHIO] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Einstein's Cosmos. How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time.]
