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EINSTEIN FOR BEGINNERS - Softcover

McGuinness, Michael

 
9780394738017: EINSTEIN FOR BEGINNERS

Synopsis

Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process, we encounter the scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday and Newton. We learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and follow Einstein's thought as he works his way towards E=MC2, the most famous equation of the 20th century.

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Review

"The presentation of [Einstein's] discoveries is little short of inspired." -- The Washington Post

"The presentation of ÝEinstein's¨ discoveries is little short of inspired." -- The Washington Post

-The presentation of [Einstein's] discoveries is little short of inspired.- -- The Washington Post

About the Author

Joseph Schwartz is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and writer and is the author of Einstein for Beginners. He has had appointments in physics and psychiatry at Columbia University and the City University of New York. Since 1983, he has had a clinical practice in London.

Michael McGuinness is the coauthor of Einstein for Beginners with Joseph Schwartz and Introducing Jung with Maggie Hyde.

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