Please, Mr Einstein - Softcover

Carrire, Jean-C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846550041 ISBN 13: 9781846550041

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 2006

Synopsis

A novel to make you fall in love with physics and philosophy. A young woman enters a building in a nameless contemporary European city. She walks into a waiting room where a dozen people, with briefcases or sheaves of documents, are gathered. She is ushered into a large office where she meets Albert Einstein who is engaged in trying to figure out the equation that explains the universe. He is charmed by her, and agrees to answer her questions. He seems very used to receiving visitors. Among them, Isaac Newton is certainly the most regular and the most argumentative, desperately trying to prove Einstein wrong. Einstein and the student start discussing the concepts of time and space. He explains his theories about relativity and his responsibility in the creation of nuclear weapons. Einstein also talks about the difficulty of being famous, about his relationship with other scientists and how his dreams of worldwide peace were shattered. He appears bright, witty, hugely sympathetic but also tormented and dreamy. This is a remarkable book that makes complex concepts of physics and philosophy accessible to the non-scientific reader in a captivating and utterly charming manner. "From the Hardcover edition."

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Please Mr. Einstein

Review:

"A thought-provoking introduction to Einstein and quantum theory" (John Williams Mail on Sunday)

"Carrière's humane sensibility makes him the ideal man to humanise Einstein" (Peter Forbes Independent) --Independent

"Since the 1960s, Carrière has had his finger on the pulse of Europe's imagination...In Carrière's story...undecidability and doubt have leached out of science and into ethics" (Lisa Jardine The Times) --The Times

"[A] coruscating, yet gently whimsical, tour ...Carriére...has an impeccable pedigree in science publishing...There are some sharp incidental pleasures and some witty reflections to be enjoyed" (Victoria Neumark Times Educational Supplement) --Times Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846550041
• ISBN 13: 9781846550041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176