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E=mc² : a biography of the world's most famous equation / David Bodanis.
Math/Physics/Astronomy - Reserve QC73.8.C6 B63 2001
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodanis, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Force and energy.
- Mass (Physics).
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Mathematical physics.
- Local Subjects:
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Berkley trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.
- Contents:
- Birth: Bern patent office, 1905
- Ancestors of E=mc2: E is for energy
- =
- m is for mass
- c is for celeritas
- 2
- Early years: Einstein and the equation
- Into the atom
- Quiet in the midday snow
- Adulthood: Germany's turn
- Norway
- America's turn
- 8:16 a.m.-over Japan
- Till the end of time: Fires of the sun
- Creating the Earth
- Brahmin lifts his eyes unto the sky
- Epilogue: What else Einstein did
- Appendix: Follow-up of other key participants.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Walker, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0425181642
- 9780425181645
- OCLC:
- 47297722
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