Hans Ohanian: Einstein's Mistakes

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Cover: 9780393337686 | Einstein's Mistakes | The Human Failings of Genius | Hans Ohanian

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Of the approximately 180 original scientific papers that Einstein published in his lifetime, about 40 are infested with mistakes. For instance, Einstein s first mathematical proof of the famous formulaE = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete proof (better mathematicians did). Einstein was often lured by irrational and mystical inspirations, but his extraordinary intuition about physics permitted him to discover profound truths despite and sometimes because of the mistakes he made along the way. He was a sleepwalker: his intuition told him where he needed to go, and he somehow managed to get there without quite knowing how. As this book persuasively argues, the defining hallmark of Einstein s genius was not any special mathematical ability but an uncanny talent to use his mistakes as stepping stones to formulate his revolutionary theories. "

Über den Autor

Hans C. Ohanian received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he worked with John A. Wheeler. He has taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, and the University of Vermont. He is the author of several textbooks spanning all undergraduate levels: Physics, Principles of Physics, Relativity: A Modern Introduction, Modern Physics, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, and, with Remo Ruffini, Gravitation and Spacetime. He is also the author of dozens of articles dealing with gravitation, relativity, and quantum theory, including many articles on fundamental physics published in the American Journal of Physics, where he served as associate editor for some years. He lives in Vermont.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	418
ISBN-13:	9780393337686
ISBN-10:	0393337685
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ohanian, Hans
Hersteller:	W. W. Norton & Company
Maße:	210 x 140 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Hans Ohanian
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2009
Gewicht:	0,571 kg

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