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Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are less well known than Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.
Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well: namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--and a view that would change the world.--Gregory McNamee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A friendly introduction to the Great man's equation!,
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This review is from: E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Paperback)
A well written "biography" of the well known and often quoted equation presented in a clear style. Not a deep mathematical wade through the complexities but a history of the events leading to the equation being born. The book takes the reader through the gestation period, childhood and adult life. Finishing with it's death in the form of the universes demise. A really entertaining read.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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An enjoyable read,
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This review is from: E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Paperback)
IMHO this book achieves exactly what it sets out to, which is to provide an enjoyable background to Einstein's most famous work. Skipping between key points in Einsteins life, light-weight physics and the social-life of certain noteable physicists the book is always entertaining even if some of the physics is flawed. Despite these flaws the book provides a very readable introduction for the layman and the physics coverered (such as it is) will be more than sufficient for 90% of people. The remaining 10% (those with a physics background) shouldnt be reading this book, the rest will come away knowing more than they did before!
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Expanding spaceships and other stories,
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This review is from: E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Paperback)
This is a very enjoyable ride through the story of the world's most famous formula. It's classed as popular science but it could just as easily be classed as popular history. The pure science content is firmly set in its historical context and against the personal foibles and character of the principal protagonists. This makes for a highly digestible blend of learning and anecdote.The book's great strength is in its use of accessible examples to illustrate the science. I've struggled with descriptions of the theory of relativity before and lost them about the time that the train starts stretching as it passes the stationery observer. David Bodanis builds up visual examples with easy to follow logic. He has an instinctive understanding of the layman's instinctive 'difficult' questions that block their understanding and he does not shirk them. I picked up on this book following its namecheck in Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Their styles are similar and if you liked that you will like this.
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