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008 080321s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2008013155
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020 _a9780393062939 (hardcover)
020 _a0393062937 (hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)214066446
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050 0 0 _aQC7
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082 0 0 _a530.09
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100 1 _aOhanian, Hans C.
245 1 0 _aEinstein's mistakes :
_bthe human failings of genius /
_cHans C. Ohanian.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York:
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_cc2008.
300 _axix, 394 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
600 1 0 _aEinstein, Albert,
_d1879-1955.
650 0 _aPhysics
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPhysics
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-373) and index.
505 0 _aChronology 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.
520 _aOhanian 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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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008013155.html
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