Einstein: His Life and UniverseSimon and Schuster, 13 mai 2008 - 675 pagini By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, 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 mind reader 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. |
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chapter | 1 |
chapter | 8 |
chapter three | 32 |
chapter four | 50 |
Quanta and Molecules 1905 | 90 |
chapter | 107 |
Contents | 140 |
chapter eight | 158 |
Unified Field Theories 19231931 | 336 |
chapter sixteen | 357 |
Einsteins God | 384 |
chapter eighteen | 394 |
chapter nineteen | 425 |
Quantum Entanglement 1935 | 448 |
The Bomb 19391945 | 471 |
OneWorlder 19451948 | 487 |
chapter nine | 189 |
chapter | 225 |
chapter eleven | 249 |
Fame 1919 | 263 |
The Wandering Zionist 19201921 | 281 |
chapter fourteen | 309 |
Landmark 19481953 | 508 |
Red Scare 19511954 | 524 |
The End 1955 | 535 |
Einsteins Brain and Einsteins Mind | 544 |
Sources | 553 |
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