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Einstein's heroes : imagining the world through the language of mathematics

"Einstein's Heroes blends science history and biography to take you on a journey of discovery about the phenomenon of mathematics - humanity's universal language and one of our most amazing accomplishments." "It uses as its axis the lives and work of the brilliant scientists who inspired Einstein particularly James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday and Isaac Newton. Together Maxwell and Faraday settled a centuries-old physical dispute, which Newton had left in his majestic wake and established mathematics as the ultimate arbiter of physical reality."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
UQP, St. Lucia, Qld., 2003
Biographies
viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
9780702234088, 0702234087
54015869
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