E=mc² : a biography of the world's most famous equation /
Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.
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New York :
Walker,
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1
- Birth
- Bern patent office, 1905
- Part 2
- Ancestors of E=mc[squared]
- E is for energy
- =
- m is for mass
- c is for celeritas
- 2[hacek(caron)]
- Part 3
- The early years
- Einstein and the equation
- Into the atom
- Quiet in the midday snow
- Part 4
- Adulthood
- Germany's turn
- Norway
- America's turn
- 8:16 a.m.
- over Japan
- Part 5
- Till the end of time
- The fires of the sun
- Creating the earth
- A Brahmin lifts his eyes unto the sky
- Epilogue : What else Einstein did
- Appendix : Follow-up of other key participants.