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What Was Einstein Thinking?
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E=mc2:
a biography of the world's most famous equation
by David Bodanis
With anecdotes and illustrations, this
entertaining story simplifies the complexities of Einstein's
revolutionary theory.
530.11 Bodanis 2000
God's
equation: Einstein, relativity, and the expanding universe
by Amir D. Aczel
Einstein thought his cosmological constant theory was
a mistake. Written with the excitement of a detective
novel, Aczel shows that recent events prove Einstein's
genius once again.
523.1 Aczel 1999
God
in the equation: how Einstein became the prophet of
the new religious era
by Corey Powell
According to Powell, science is the new religion and
Einstein is its prophet. God is the cosmological constant
in Einstein's equation. Is this sci-religion an important
new step in the history of human spirituality? A stimulating
read even if you disagree with Powell.
215 Powell 2002
Einstein's
unfinished symphony: listening to the sounds of space-time
by Marcia Bartusiak
Uses the metaphor of music to describe the science of
gravity waves that are vibrations in space-time. A major
part of the work is about Einstein. Lyrical language
is used to describe how gravity waves surge through
the cosmos at the speed of light.
530.11 Bartusiak 2000
Time
travel in Einstein's universe: the physical possibilities
of travel through time
by Richard J. Gott
A professor of astrophysics at Princeton, Gott explores
the very real science of time travel. He does not stray
from the physics, which are based on Einstein's theory
of relativity. This is not science fiction!
530.11 Gott 2001
The
Einstein file: J. Edgar Hoover's secret war against
the world's most famous scientist
by Fred Jerome
Hoover's FBI spied on Albert Einstein from 1933 to his
death in 1955. Why? Find out in this exciting, surprising,
and well-reviewed book about the political life of Einstein.
530.092 Jerome 2002
Einstein
in love: a scientific romance
by Dennis Overbye
Einstein had two loves
physics and women This book
explores both. An absorbing account that is meticulously
researched and beautifully written.
Bio Einstein 2000
Possessing
genius: the bizarre odyssey of Einstein's brain
by Carolyn Abraham
Abraham has put together the whole bizarre, convoluted,
eerie story of what happened to Einstein's brain after
it was removed during
autopsy in 1955.
616.0709 Abraham 2002
Driving
Mr. Albert: a trip across America with Einstein's brain
by Michael Paterniti
Another account of the adventures of Einstein's brain.
Paterniti recounts his drive across country with the
famous brain in the trunk of his car. Riding with him
is Thomas Harvey, the physician who did Einstein's autopsy
in 1955 and kept the brain for more than forty years.
616.0709 Paterniti 2000
Einstein,
Picasso: space, time and the beauty that causes havoc
by Arthur I. Miller
Miller examines the lives of Einstein and Picasso and
the revolutions they each created. Miller's work captures
the excitement of the time, the scene, and the people
involved.
709.2 Miller 2001
And
a novel
Einstein's
dreams
by Alan P. Lightman
Lightman teaches physics and writing at
MIT. His novel is an imaginary re-creation of Einstein's
discovery of the nature of time.
Fiction Lightman 1993
And
for fun! A play
.
Picasso
at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Picasso and Einstein are at a bar in France talking
about the art of physics and the physics of art when
time warps and in comes Elvis Presley.
812 Martin 1996
Einstein
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American
Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/exhibits/ein.htm
Nova
Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
Nobel
Prize Online
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1921/
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