| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-373) and index. |
| Summary |
Ohanian offers insights into aspects of Albert Einstein that many don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories. |
| Contents |
Chronology of Einstein's mistakes -- 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. |
| Subject |
Physics -- History.
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Physics. |
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History. |
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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Physics -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- History.
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Science. |
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. |
| ISBN |
9780393062939 hardcover |
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0393062937 hardcover |
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