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Einstein's mistakes : the human failings of genius / Hans C. Ohanian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 394 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393062939 (hardcover)
  • 0393062937 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.09 22
LOC classification:
  • QC7 .O33 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Chronology of Einstein's mistakes -- I will resign the game -- A lovely time in Berne -- And yet it moves -- If I have seen farther -- A storm broke loose in my mind -- Motions of inanimate, small, suspended bodies -- What is the light quantum? -- The argument is jolly and beguiling -- Suddenly I had an idea -- The theory is of incomparable beauty -- The world is a madhouse -- Does God play dice? -- The graveyard of disappointed hopes -- Postmortem.
Summary: Ohanian offers insights into aspects of Albert Einstein that many don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.
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Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation QC7.E46 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan ML14074248

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-373) and index.

Chronology of Einstein's mistakes -- I will resign the game -- A lovely time in Berne -- And yet it moves -- If I have seen farther -- A storm broke loose in my mind -- Motions of inanimate, small, suspended bodies -- What is the light quantum? -- The argument is jolly and beguiling -- Suddenly I had an idea -- The theory is of incomparable beauty -- The world is a madhouse -- Does God play dice? -- The graveyard of disappointed hopes -- Postmortem.

Ohanian offers insights into aspects of Albert Einstein that many don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.

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