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Einstein's mistakes : the human failings of genius / Hans C. Ohanian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ohanian, Hans C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--History.
- Physics.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-373) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393062939
- 0393062937
- OCLC:
- 214066446
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