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Book Description
Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to Continue
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bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010
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More pap than pop
In 1905 Einstein published four papers that fundamentally changed the course of science and the way we understand the universe. He was 26 at the time, stuck in a dreary job at a Swiss patent office. One of those papers contained the equation E=mc2 (i ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- eBook 352 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0802718213
- ISBN-13: 9780802718211
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pub date: May 26, 2009
- Dimensions: 1374 mm x 800 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation By David Bodanis
he subtitle of E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation is an immediate clue that this book is not physics as you studied it in high school or college. David Bodanis, a lecturer at Oxford University, takes what could have been a dull re ... (read full critics)