Einstein's heroes : imagining the world through the language of mathematics
Blending science, history, and biography, this remarkable book illuminates the life and work of three of Albert Einstein's heroes: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and especially James Clerk Maxwell, whose work directly inspired the theory of relativity.
eBook, English, 2006, c2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, c2005
Biographies
323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
9780195308907, 0195308905
1110153375
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
Originally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2003