Einstein And Our World
Control of Nature
This is a fascinating account of the impact of Einstein's work and outlook upon contemporary culture and upon the scientific enterprise itself.Following a brief, nontechnical explanation of the significance of Einstein's achievements, Prof. Cassidy takes the reader on an intriguing journey through the uses and abuses of Einstein's relativity theory in such widely diverse settings as political ideology, philosophy of science, literature, art, religion, and the individual in an age of dictatorship, genocide, and weapons of mass destruction. Cassidy explores how Einstein's work spread throughout the physical sciences, leading to a new conception…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59102-256-5
- EAN: 9781591022565
- Produktnummer: 9164314
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 162 S.
Über den Autor
David Cassidy, formerly associate editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, is currently professor of natural science at Hofstra University. He is also the author of Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (used as a basis of the Broadway play Copenhagen) and the coauthor with G. Holton and J. Rutherford of Understanding Physics.
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