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Forget about inclined planes and pulleys. In this series from the PBS program NOVA, physics is presented as an exotic, mind-bending realm., first broadcast in November, follows up on the 2003 Peabody Award-winning. Both series are adapted from the best-selling books of host, a mathematician and physicist at Columbia University. Like the earlier series, which was centered around String Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos deals with ideas that are on the cutting edge of scientific theory. 'This is a report from the frontier of cosmic thought,' wrote Dennis Overbye last November, 'as fresh as last month's Nobel Prizes, uncompromising in its intellectual ambitions and discerning in its choice of compelling scientific issues.
The action ranges from Times Square to the Grand Canyon, from bowling lanes and billiard tables to the limits of the imagination.' The series is arranged in four parts of approximately 50 minutes each. The episodes are called 'What is Space?;' 'The Illusion of Time,' 'Quantum Leap,' and 'Universe or Multiverse?'
As much as we've heard about Albert Einstein's brilliance, has any of it been set apart from him scientific success? As we see here in Einstein, Albert Eintein was not only a huge contributor to the scientific community, but also to the lives of his love, Mileva Maric, his family and his three children. Throughout this telling story, we're taken on a literary quest to discover the real Albert Einstein, and along the way we take part in his discoveries, struggles, and the most famous of his accomplishments that made him one of the world's top influential scientists of the twentieth century. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work?
What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe.
His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of 'science's preeminent poster boy' in this lucid account (after 2003's Benjamin Franklin and 1992's Kissinger). Contrary to popular myth, the German-Jewish schoolboy Albert Einstein not only excelled in math, he mastered calculus before he was 15.
Young Albert's dislike for rote learning, however, led him to compare his teachers to 'drill sergeants.' That antipathy was symptomatic of Einstein's love of individual and intellectual freedom, beliefs the author revisits as he relates his subject's life and work in the context of world and political events that shaped both, from WWI and II and their aftermath through the Cold War. Isaacson presents Einstein's research-his efforts to understand space and time, resulting in four extraordinary papers in 1905 that introduced the world to special relativity, and his later work on unified field theory-without equations and for the general reader.
Isaacson focuses more on Einstein the man: charismatic and passionate, often careless about personal affairs; outspoken and unapologetic about his belief that no one should have to give up personal freedoms to support a state. Fifty years after his death, Isaacson reminds us why Einstein (1879-1955) remains one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. 'Walter Isaacson has captured the complete Einstein.
With an effortless style that belies a sharp attention to detail and scientific accuracy, Isaacson takes us on a soaring journey through the life, mind, and science of the man who changed our view of the universe.' - Brian Greene, Professor of Physics at Columbia and author of The Fabric of the Cosmos 'This book does an amazing job getting the science right and the man revealed.' - Sylvester James Gates, Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland “This is a biography that happens to be treatise on creativity. I was about to say scientific creativity, but I think I mean creativity itself.
It shows us the creative exuberance of a man with an extraordinary visual imagination, able to recast certain problems in surprising ways.” 'This book will be widely and deservedly admired. It is excellently readable and combines the personal and the scientific aspects of Einstein's life in a graceful way.' - Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics at Harvard and author of Einstein, History, and Other Passions 'Once again Walter Isaacson has produced a most valuable biography of a great man about whom much has already been written.
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It helps that he has had access to important new material. He met the challenge of dealing with his subject as a human being and describing profound ideas in physics. His biography is a pleasure to read and makes the great physicist come alive.'
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- Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The Quark and the Jaguar 'With unmatched narrative skill, Isaacson has managed the extraordinary feat of preserving Einstein's monumental stature while at the same time bringing him to such vivid life that we come to feel as if he could be walking in our midst. This is a terrific work.' - Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 'Isaacson's treatment of Einstein's scientific work is excellent: accurate, complete, and just the right level of detail for the general reader. Taking advantage of the wealth of recently uncovered historical material, he has produced the most readable biography of Einstein yet.' Douglas Stone, Professor of Physics at Yale 'This is a brilliant intellectual tapestry - and a great read. Skillfully weaving Einstein's revolutionary scientific achievements, his prolific political initiatives, his complex personal life, and his fascinating personality, Isaacson has transformed the transformer of the twentieth century into a beacon for the twenty-first century.'
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Sherwin, coauthor of American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography 'I found so much to admire; there are many places where I just had to cheer what Isaacson had written.' - Dudley Herschbach, Professor of Science at Harvard 'Isaacson has written a crisp, engaging, and refreshing biography, one that beautifully masters the historical literature and offers many new insights into Einstein's work and life.'
- Diana Kormos Buchwald, General Editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein 'Isaacson has admirably succeeded in weaving together the complex threads of Einstein's personal and scientific life to paint a superb portrait.' Miller, author of Einstein, Picasso.