A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076243564X ISBN 13: 9780762435647

Publisher: Running Press Adult, 2009

Synopsis

With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it a gem of a collection” while New Scientist magazine notes the thrill of reading Einstein's own words.” From the writings that revealed the famous Theory of Relativity, to other papers that shook the scientific world of the 20th century, A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion belongs in every science fan's library.

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Stephen Hawking has become a scientific celebrity” of sorts, ever since his A Brief History of Time was published. He has been described as the most intelligent man in the world today,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times and as the scientific heir to Einstein, Newton, and Galileo” by People magazine. He lives in Cambridge, England.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. It's hard to imagine a better guide to the work of Albert Einstein than Hawking, one of the world's most renowned physicists and popular science writers, whose own A Brief History of Time has sold over nine million copies. Though there are plenty of popular books about Einstein's theories, Hawking is right when he insists that the "most lucid, not to mention entertaining proponent of Einstein's ideas has always been Einstein himself." Even those with a minimal background in math and science will come away with a keen understanding of the towering genius and his transformative work on the nature of space, time and light. Included are Einstein's seminal papers on special and general relativity, and his 1916 Relativity, the Special and General Theory, which explains the theory in simple, straightforward terms accessible to any high-school graduate with a knowledge of basic algebra. Einstein's pioneering work in modern quantum theory, from his 1905 discovery of photons to his later, critical opinions of the generally accepted quantum theory (in excerpts from his 1950 book Out of My Later Years), is also considered. Hawking adds a brief but effective introduction to each section, making this gem of a collection really shine.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 076243564X
• ISBN 13: 9780762435647
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Hawking Stephen