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E=MC2: A Biography of the world's most famos equation

Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.

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Autore principale: David Bodanis
Natura: Printed Book
Pubblicazione: New York Berkley Publishing Group 2000
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505 |a  Part 1 -- Birth -- Bern patent office, 1905 -- Part 2 -- Ancestors of E=mc[squared] -- E is for energy -- = -- m is for mass -- c is for celeritas -- 2[hacek(caron)] -- Part 3 -- The early years -- Einstein and the equation -- Into the atom -- Quiet in the midday snow -- Part 4 -- Adulthood -- Germany's turn -- Norway -- America's turn -- 8:16 a.m. -- over Japan -- Part 5 -- Till the end of time -- The fires of the sun -- Creating the earth -- A Brahmin lifts his eyes unto the sky -- Epilogue : What else Einstein did -- Appendix : Follow-up of other key participants. 
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