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21. General Relativity and Gravitation:One Hundred Years After the Birth of Albert Einstein. Volume 2 | |
Hardcover: 540
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(1980-05-01)
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22. The Einstein Theory of Relativity by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | |
Paperback: 28
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(2009-07-17)
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Poorly written, and suffers as a result.
Good Entry Point
Good Entry-Point Reading
wow |
23. Sterling Biographies: Albert Einstein: The Miracle Mind by Tabatha Yeatts | |
Paperback: 128
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(2007-08-01)
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Easy read |
24. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson | ||||
Hardcover: 704
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(2007-04-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how the imagination that distinguished his science sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story, a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom, reflects the triumphs and tumults of the modern era. Based on the newly-released papers and personal letters, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate - became the mindreader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. More to Explore Customer Reviews (271)
Einstein and "der Depperte" and Echolalia
Einstein: His Life and Universe is the Best of Both Worlds
A truly deep look at Einstein
listen to the audiobook, I'm sure glad I did!
A fascinating life, brilliantly portrayed |
25. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, The Masterpiece Science Edition, by Albert Einstein | |
Paperback: 96
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(2005-11-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description Section 17.Space-Time Minkowski’s viewpoint represents a "geometrization" of relativity. These ideas have, over the years, come to the forefront: They reflect the perspective of the majority of physicists working in relativity today. Let us expand on this viewpoint.The fundamental notion is that of an event, which we think of as a physical occurrence having negligibly small extension in both space and time. That is, an event is "small and quick," such as the explosion of a firecracker or the snapping of your fingers. Now consider the collection of all possible events in the universe—all events that have ever happened, all that are happening now, and all that will ever happen; here and elsewhere. This collection is called space-time. It is the arena in which physics takes place in relativity.The idea is to recast all statements about goings-on in the physical world into geometrical structures within this space-time. In a similar vein, you might begin the study of plane geometry by introducing the notion of a point (analogous to an event) and assembling all possible points into the plane (analogous to space-time). This plane is the arena for plane geometry, and each statement that is part of plane geometry is to be cast as geometrical structure within this plane.This space-time is a once-and-for-all picture of the entire physical world. Nothing "happens" there; things just "are." A physical particle, for example, is described in the language of space-time by giving the locus of all events that occur "right at the particle." The result is a certain curve, or path, in space-time called the world-line of the particle. Don’t think of the particle as "traversing" its world-line in the same sense that a train traverses its tracks. Rather, the world-line represents, once and for all, the entire life history of the particle, from its birth to its death. The collision of two particles, for example, would be represented geometrically by the intersection of their world-lines. The point of intersection—a point common to both curves; an event that is "right at" both particles—represents the event of their collision. In a similar way, more complicated physical goings-on—an experiment in particle physics, for example, or a football game—are incorporated into the fabric of space-time.One example of "physical goings-on" is the reference frame that Einstein uses in his discussion of special relativity. How is this incorporated into space-time? The individuals within a particular reference frame assign four numbers, labeled x, y, z, t, to each event in space-time. The first three give the spatial location of the event according to these observers, the last the time of the event.These numbers completely and uniquely characterize the event. In geometrical terms, a frame of reference gives rise to a coordinate system on space-time. In a similar vein, in plane geometry a coordinate system assigns two numbers, x and y, to each point of the plane. These numbers completely and uniquely characterize that point. The statement "the plane is two-dimensional" means nothing more and nothing less than that precisely two numbers are required to locate each point in the plane.Similarly, "space-time is four-dimensional" means nothing more and nothing less than that precisely four numbers are required to locate each event in space-time. That is all there is to it! You now understand "four-dimensional space-time" as well as any physicist.Note that the introduction of four-dimensional space-time does not say that space and time are "equivalent" or "indistinguishable." Clearly, space and time are subjectively different entities. But a rather subtle mixing of them occurs in special relativity, making it convenient to introduce this single entity, space-time.In plane geometry, we may change coordinates, i.e., relabel the points. It is the same plane described in a different way (in that a given point is now represented by different numbers), just as the land represented by a map stays the same whether you use latitude/longitude or GPS coordinates. We can now determine formulae expressing the new coordinate-values for each point of the plane in terms of the old coordinate-values. Similarly, we may change coordinates in space-time, i.e., change the reference frame therein. And, again, we can determine formulae relating the new coordinate-values for each space-time event to the old coordinate-values for that event. This, from Minkowski’s geometrical viewpoint, is the substance of the Lorentz-transformation formulae in Section 11.A significant advantage of Minkowski’s viewpoint is that it is particularly well-adapted also to the general theory of relativity. We shall return to this geometrical viewpoint in our discussion of Section 27. Customer Reviews (11)
Who typset the math in this thing?
Like Science?
classic
very thin and concise, directly caught the point
Still confusing. . . |
26. Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti | |
Hardcover: 307
Pages
(2000-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made offwith the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimenand would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fellfrom grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urbanlegend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, havingsnatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributedthem piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world. The brain itself has seen better days, its chicken-colored chunksfloating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, yet its beatificpresence in the book, riding serenely in the trunk of a Buick Skylark,encased in Tupperware, reflects the uncertainty of Einstein'slife. Was he a sinner or a saint, a genius or just lucky? Harveyguards the brain as if it were his own. From time to time, he hasgiven favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the resultshave been mixed. Physiologically, Einstein's brain may have been nodifferent from anyone else's, but plenty of people would like thebrain to be more than it is, including Paterniti: Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paternitiseems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his lastdays. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with aunifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overlysincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and itwalks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyedwonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers anengrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be theultimate late-20th-century road trip. --Therese Littleton Customer Reviews (102)
They should make it into a movie with Jeff Bridges, or some one ...
Unfocused, but entertaining
AS A WRITER...
A fresh story and a unique style
Oddball travelogue... |
27. Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History) by Elizabeth MacLeod | |
Paperback: 32
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(2003-02-01)
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28. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman | |
Paperback: 144
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(2004-11-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientistsand humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, andliteral details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne,Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working onhis bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives isvividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in thisdrama. The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share hisdreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quitedifferently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man isoccasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past:"He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration inanything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness eventswithout being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile oftime." The dreams in which time flows backward are far moresophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five,though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, whichLightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study thedifferent kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucidconsequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables comeoff like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. Peoplelive for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to eachunique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place offrozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advanceexactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly. "Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic,"writes Lightman."Scientists turn reckless and mutter likegamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists arejoyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing richfolks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth andscorning the swiftly aging poor folk below.Forgetting eventually howthey got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamerfood," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air,bony, old before their time." There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetrycollection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History ofTime, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who'sbeen to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales thanMarco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers ofEinstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishingit. Customer Reviews (232)
Time and Time Again
Einstein's Dreams
Much better as material for finding flaws in fantastic time theories
Great Page-turner
Amazing read |
29. Albert Einstein: A Biography by Albrecht Folsing | |
Paperback: 928
Pages
(1998-06-01)
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Einstein biography
very indepth
Detailed/Engagin
Breathtaking Imagination Between 1905 and 1920 Einstein, a patent claims inspector, produced a series of papers on the subject of physics so outlandish that the world collectively gasped. Put simply, Einstein postulated connections between dimensions that had been considered unbridgeable until his day. He was not a scientist in the way we traditionally think of the discipline. He was in reality a science fiction writer who challenged the white coats to prove he was wrong. Most of the time they could not, to their own amazement. And when they did, he seemed to delight even more. God, he remarked, may be mysterious, but never malevolent. For Einstein the universe was a playground. Einstein enjoyed wonderful timing. By 1900 the telescope and the microscope had been perfected to the point that the bigness and the smallness of the natural world began crashing into the complacency of Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry. Einstein, whose own spacial-temporal development was delayed until early adulthood, began to play with possibilities. Is the universe so big that the traditional absolute theorems of geometry might be disproved? Consider the classic geometric postulate that two parallel lines will stretch into infinity without ever touching. Einstein dared to question such a basic law in several ways: if the universe itself is not linear but perhaps curved, the lines would eventually meet. And second, what influence would gravitation play upon these two lines? It was these daring interplays of factors that set Einstein apart and led to his famous speculations about relationships between mass, time, and energy. It is a credit to Holsing that he is able to describe Einstein's mental journeys as lucidly as he does. This is not to say there is no hard work required. Einstein had a hand in nearly all branches of physics, including optics, electricity, and radiation, and he was in constant dialogue with other noted thinkers of his age, including Niels Bohr and Max Planck. For an older reader unfamiliar with quantum physics, the scientific debates over the nature of light may as well be written in Vulcan. Be that as it may, the faithful reader will probably take away enough science to be dazzled and deeply impressed when Einstein's most audacious speculation-that light is bent by gravitational pull-is dramatically proven during a total eclipse of the sun in 1918. For all practical purposes, Einstein's creative career ended around 1920, the same time he began to attract respectable university and lecture fees. The years between 1920 and 1955 are remarkable in their own way: Einstein became one of the world's most recognized celebrities in an era of renewed interest in popular science. Like many celebrities he grumbled about the distractions but rarely missed a good dinner. Universities that hired the grand thinker after 1920 did so at their own risk: Einstein traveled widely and allowed his life to be governed by the Muse of creativity. He spent three decades working unsuccessfully to eliminate mathematical kinks from his general theory of relativity. [Ironically, since 1995 astronomical discoveries of the magnitude of dust and gas in the universe have tended to smooth out the rough edges of the relativity theory.] Although he lived and worked in Germany for many years, Einstein carried a deep-seated suspicion of German militarism. He was disillusioned with the conduct of most of his scientific colleagues during World War I, and he was early to see the direction of Nazi policy. Relocating to Princeton, New Jersey, he lived the final two decades of his life in the United States. As Folsing tells it, the United States government kept Einstein at arm's length, perhaps due to a 1930 speech in which he remarked that if as few as 2% of a nation's draftees refused to serve, its military force would crumble. The speech made Einstein an icon among pacifists, and "2%" buttons became popular leftist items throughout the 1930's. Given Einstein's political leanings, it is one of history's better fortunes that Franklin Roosevelt took seriously Einstein's warnings about German development of a fission bomb. However, Einstein was considered too much of a security risk to be considered for the Manhattan Project and was systematically excluded from any information about the project. Folsing chronicles the struggles of Einstein's two marriages and the somewhat flagrant adulteries of his middle years. Contrary to popular belief, Einstein was in fact a handsome and captivating younger man. It was only in later years that hygiene and fashion tended to deteriorate, perhaps as a statement of sorts to his prim Princeton neighbors. Folsing captures Einstein's wit: once, when the mayor of his town apologized for sewerage fumes from a treatment plant wafting toward the Einstein residence, the good scientist confessed that on occasion he had "returned the compliment."
Gets his life right, but the science is too dense for me Two things about this book, though, did trouble me. First, it was overlong. There were some sections that felt either redundant or padded, and did little to provide further insight into Einstein the man. Second, the physics explanations went over my head. As a layman, I wasn't expecting a dumbed-down approach meant to pander to the dimmest of readers. I do have some math background, and usually take to the subject easily. But Folsing never gave me a chance. I went in hoping for some comprehensible explanations regarding the special and general theories of relativity, but got nothing more than page after page of jargon that assumed plenty of prior knowledge. Even an explanation of why they (along with the equation "E=mc2") received critical and popular acclaim was missing. Now, I'm willing to concede that something got lost in the translation, for the book was originally written in German. Folsing is by trade a physicist, and later a science journalist, so should know his stuff and have the skills needed for concise explanation. I suppose it was enough to ask that he attempt to share some of his knowledge of Einstein's science, while making Einstein's life a gripping and interesting tale. ... Read more |
30. Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld | |
Paperback: 336
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(1967-10-30)
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Extremely good simple explanation of physics.
The Evolution of Physics
Very good for many different readers
An excelent book on physics
Excellent book |
31. Albert Einstein: Genius of the Twentieth Century (Ready-to-read Stories of Famous Americans) by Patricia Lakin | |
Paperback: 48
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(2005-08-23)
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Great easy to read biography |
32. Albert Einstein: Shmoop Biography by Shmoop | |
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(2009-12-22)
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33. Autobiographical Notes by Albert Einstein | |
Paperback: 95
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(1999-01-06)
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The life devoted to objective understanding of nature |
34. Albert Einstein (DK Biography) by Frieda Wishinsky | |
Paperback: 128
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(2005-08-01)
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Inside Einstein
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Outstanding biography for young people!
Albert Einstein Life
Albert Einstein Life |
35. Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein | |
Hardcover: 282
Pages
(2005-06-30)
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Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Words
Wide array of topics, yet less insightful than would be expected
Essays of the last fifteen years
Perfect for Travel, Quick Reads As letters and speeches, theseare written as the ordinary man that Einstein once was - very easy to readand understand.Even some of the physics lectures are understandable. Eachis relatively short making this perfect for when you want to read somethingof substance but don't have much time. The sections on Public Affairsare especially haunting as Einstein presents his arguments for the"global village" and advocated someting akin to the current U.N.- things that began to come into their own after his passing.Inparticular, there is an interchange between him anda group of Communistscientists that underlines the Cold War tension in its height and is achilling read now in the Post Soviet Union age.
A different man |
36. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb | |
Hardcover: 560
Pages
(2007-04-16)
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37. Albert Einstein/Mileva Maric: The Love Letters | |
Paperback: 140
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(2000-10-31)
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Superb translations of the Einstein-Maric early letters
Excellent ! The book that the Einstein establishment doesn't want you to read
A lot more than a secretary |
38. Albert Einstein (Famous People Series) by Ibi Lepscky | |
Paperback: 24
Pages
(1992-09-23)
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Adorably illustrated and written
Everybody Matters, Even Kids Who are Different
What a fantastic book!
Wonderful Book to Encourage Tolerance, Respect
A Short Lesson on "Different Isn't Bad" |
39. Did It Take Creativity To Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? (Scholastic Science Supergiants) by Melvin & Gilda Berger | |
Paperback: 48
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(2007-09-01)
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40. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909 (Original texts) by Albert Einstein | |
Hardcover: 696
Pages
(1990-02-01)
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Excellent
The Einstein Gold (or God) Age |
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