The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17 (Documentary Edition)

An insightful new book putting Einstein\'s work in a contemporary contextFew figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or a job, who was written off by his professors as a hopeless loser, could to dare to scale the heights he reached. In this enlightening book Michio Kaku reasseses Einstein\'s work by centering on his three great theories - special relativity, general relativity and the Unified Field Theory. The first yielded the equation E =mc² which is now such a fixture in our culture that it is practically a ubiquitous slogan. But the subsequent theories led to the Big Bang theory and have changed irrevocably the way we perceive time and space.Michio Kaku gives a new, refreshing look at the pioneering work of Einstein, giving a more accurate portrayal of his enduring legacy than previous biographies. As today\'s advanced physicists continue their intense search to fulfill Einstein\'s most cherished dream, a \'theory of everything\', he is recognised as a prophet who set the agenda for modern physics. Σελίδες: 224, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0301, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm