An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
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Book Overview
Fritzsch offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist. While he introduces the theory of relativity, Fritzsch teaches its sources, its workings, and the ways it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. An Equation That Changed the World dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human race, and the survival of our planet. "Fritzsch could not give the modern reader a more memorable introduction to the personalities and science of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein unless somehow he could find the keys to H. G. Wells' time machine. . . . Many readers will applaud Fritzsch for this lively but profoundly insightful book." --Booklist, starred review " Fritzsch] has dreamed up a dialogue between the two great physicists, helped along by a fictional modern physicist. . . . The conversation builds up to an explanation of E=mc2, and on the way illuminates the important points where Newtonian and Einsteinian theory diverge." --David Lindley, New York Times Book Review
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226265587
ISBN13:9780226265582
Release Date:December 1997
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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good start on your quest to learn everything
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Using just enough math to give readers a taste for the complexity of the problem, and the elegant solution, Fritzsch introduced me not only to Einstein's great work, but also to the concepts of new and old physics, the problems inherent in both, and to two of the greatest minds in history. This book allowed me, intimidated by the gaping chasm of numbers, cryptic symbols, and big words of "the new physics", to grasp the basic concepts of relativity. The running dialogue and action kept me moderately interested when the concepts became difficult, although that facet of the book was the weakest. (I mean, I think Einstein, Newton, and a modern physicist would be able to think of something a little more captivating to talk about, but, who am I to judge?) All in all, a great intro for seekers of knowledge into the depths of modern physics.
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