Einstein's Greatest Mistake (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2017-06-01
Förlag
Abacus
Originalspråk
English
Illustrationer
Integrated b/w photos and diagrams.
Dimensioner
196 x 126 x 20 mm
Vikt
240 g
ISBN
9780349142029

Einstein's Greatest Mistake

The Life of a Flawed Genius

av David Bodanis
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-06-01
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Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing. He was a fallible genius. An intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist, Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals how much we owe Einstein today - and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.
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Bodanis is a lot like Einstein . . . Both see the fun in physics, both love simplicity and brevity * The Times * A sympathetic appraisal of Einstein's intellectual development * Nature * Like Einstein, he finds fun in physics and understands how to communicate its mystery * The Times * This is a perceptive and lucid account of a brilliant but flawed physicist. -- PD Smith * the Guardian *

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David Bodanis studied mathematics, physics and history at the University of Chicago, and for many years taught the 'Intellectual Tool-Kit' course at Oxford University. The author of many books including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos, and most recently helped run an international study for the UK Treasury on the future of high-frequency trading. Bodanis's work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives in London.

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