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Carregando... Einstein for Beginners (1979)de Joseph Schwartz, Michael McGuinness (Ilustrador)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 530.1 This book explains the theory of relativity quite well - if you have the patience to wade through random historical tangents, biographies of everyone and their oarents, and the author's push for revolutionary socialism. I am guessing the later is probably a product of being written in 1979; the former of poor editing. The art is atrocious - it mixes steam punk style with silly underdrawn sketches. The type face is mixed; anything harder to understand is in a tiny print. The effect is messy both visually and content wise. The parts pertaining to the theory of relativity are pages 61-66, 88-120, and 136 to 165. Pages 121 to 135 are a history of mathematics, which, while interesting, has no place in the middle of explaining the theory. And this illustrates why I thought of giving up - but I am glad I stuck with it because the end was worth while. Written in 1979, it was one of the earlier examples of a book with a serious subject being illustrated with comic illustrations. Graphic Novels are no longer novel, but the treatment of serious material in this manner was relatively new, and part of the "hippie" culture. This one was a success in that it takes very complicated material - how Einstein came up with several of his theories, including relativity, and presenting the actually mathematics, and the physics in a format that renders it slightly more understandable. I say slightly because understanding the mathematics behind Einsteins theories is extremely difficult. However, I did gain a better feeling for Einstein's thinking, and reasoning, and did see how the mathematics made sense. It also became clear that while a phenomenally original thinker, Einsteins main theories were all based on principles that had been discovered hundreds of years earlier. Even his most famous equation E=MC2 is an updated version of Newton's formulation of Kinetic energy. This book will definitely not appeal to many people, but if you enjoy math, physics, and nature, as I do, you will find it an interesting and educational read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought. Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. In the process, we meet scientific luminaries and personalities of imperial Germany, as well as Galileo, Faraday, and Newton; learn why moving clocks run slower than stationary ones, why nothing can go faster than the speed of light; and follow Albert's thought as he works his way toward E = mc2, the most famous equation of the twentieth century. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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