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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375423451
ISBN-13
9780375423451
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48249649
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Einstein : Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History, Physics / General, Essays, Science & Technology, Jewish
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-048286
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
530/.092 B
Table Of Content
Introduction by John Brockman ROGER HIGHFIELD Einstein When He's at Home GINO C. SEGRÉ The Freest Man JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Mentor and Sounding Board GEORGE F. SMOOT My Einstein Suspenders LEON M. LEDERMAN Einstein, Moe, and Joe CHARLES SEIFE The True and the Absurd FRANK J. TIPLER Albert Einstein: A Scientific Reactionary GEORGE DYSON Helen Dukas: Einstein's Compass COREY S. POWELL My Three Einsteins LEE SMOLIN In Search of Einstein ANTON ZEILINGER Einstein and Absolute Reality STEVEN STROGATZ A Walk Down Mercer Street PETER GALISON Things and Thoughts JEREMY BERNSTEIN Childe Bernstein to Relativity Came GEORGE JOHNSON The Books in the Basement LEONARD SUSSKIND How He Thought JANNA LEVIN Toward a Moving Train MARCELO GLEISER Einstein's Tie ROCKY KOLB The Greatest Discovery Einstein Didn't Make RICHARD A. MULLER The Gift of Time PAUL C. W. DAVIES Flying Apart LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Einstein in the Twilight Zone PAUL J. STEINHARDT No Beginning and No End MARIA SPIROPULU Where Is Einstein? Acknowledgments
Synopsis
In this fascinating volume, today's foremost scientists discuss their own versions and visions of Einstein: how he has influenced their worldviews, their ideas, their science, and their professional and personal lives. These twenty-four essays are a testament to the power of scientific legacy and are essential reading for scientist and layperson alike.Contributors include: Roger Highfield on the Einstein myth John Archibald Wheeler on his meetings with Einstein Gino C. Segrè, Lee Smolin, and Anton Zeilinger on Einstein's difficulties with quantum theory Leon M. Lederman on the special theory of relativity Frank J. Tipler on why Einstein should be seen as a scientific reactionary rather than a scientific revolutionary From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification Number
QC16.E5A5 2006
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