Einstein and Our World

ISBN 10: 1573925403 / ISBN 13: 9781573925402

Published by Humanity Books

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The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Einstein and Our World
• Publisher: Humanity Books
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573925403
• ISBN 13: 9781573925402
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Born in Germany during the imperial era in 1879, Albert Einstein died seventy-six years later in Princeton, New Jersey, one decade after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan.

While most available works on Einstein trace the origins and evolution of his views and theories, David Cassidy focuses on Einstein's influence within and far beyond the confines of physics. Following a brief, nontechnical explanation of the significance of Einstein's achievements, Dr. Cassidy explores how Einstein's work spread throughout the physical sciences and led to a new conception of the theoretical physicist. It then engendered a new understanding of the physical world and ultimately provided the framework for a new and profound intellectual and technical mastery of nature. Dr. Cassidy takes the reader on a fascinating 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.