Einstein's heroes : imagining the world through the language of mathematics / Robyn Arianrhod.
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Details
- Description
- 323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Note
- Originally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A seamless intertwining -- A reluctant revolutionary -- Beetles, strings and sealing wax -- The nature of physics -- The language of physics -- Why Newton held the world in thrall -- Rites of passage -- A fledgling physicist -- Electromagnetic controversy -- Mathematics as language -- The magical synthesis of algebra an geometry -- Maxwell's mathematical language -- Maxwell's rainbow -- Imagining the world with the language of mathematics: a revolution in physics.
- Subject
- Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Mathematical physics -- History.
- Physicists -- Biography.
- Science -- Popular works.
- ISBN
- 0195183703 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- Standard No.
- 9780195183702