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E=mc² : a biography of the world's most famous equation
- Author
- Bodanis, David.
- Title
- E=mc² : a biography of the world's most famous equation / David Bodanis.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Berkley trade pbk. ed.
- Published
- New York : Berkley Books, 2001.
- Description
- ix, 337 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1203/2001046083-b.html <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1203/2001046083-d.html <Sample text> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1203/2001046083-s.html <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1203/2001046083-t.html
- Notes
- Originally published: New York : Walker, 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index. I-UNIVLIB: Copy 1: Robert L. Payton Collection.
- Contents
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- Birth: Bern patent office, 1905
- Ancestors of E=mc2: E is for energy
- = 23
- 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.
- 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.
- Subject headings
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Force and energy. Mass (Physics) Mathematical physics.
- ISBN
- 0425181642 9780425181645