Einstein for beginners

Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness

ICON BOOKS

1992

169 páginas

5h 38m

ISBN-10: 1874166021

Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly acessible, "Eintein for beginners" has become established internationally as one of the best introductions to Einstein’s life and thought.
Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process,bwe encounter the scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday and Newton. We learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and follow Einstein’s thought as he works his way towards E=MC², the most famous equation of the twentieth century.