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Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius""

Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius""

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Product Code:
1932-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0032-4
SKU
14.0092
Year
02-05-2017
Translation
From English: Zhana Toteva
Pages
288
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.35 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Biographies & Autobiographies, Famous Scientists

David Bodanis

David Bodanis

Bodanis was born and brought up in Chicago, Illinois, and read mathematics, physics and economics at the University of Chicago. In his early twenties he moved to Paris, where he began his career as a foreign correspondent for the International Herald Tribune. A move to the South of France followed, and he then split his time between France and London, combining writing with stints as a science pre…

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Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends.

 How did this happen? Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well when he was young. But when it came to the new field of quantum mechanics, the same traits undermined him. Bestselling biographer David Bodanis traces Einstein from the skeptical, erratic student to the world's most brilliant physicist—and then to the desolate, fallen-from-grace celebrity.
 
An intimate biography touching on the romances and rivalries of the celebrated physicist, as much as on his scientific goals, Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today—and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.

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