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2016

Format:	Book
Author:	Bodanis, David, author.
Title:	Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography / David Bodanis.
Publisher, Date:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. ©2016
Description:	xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	A portrait of Albert Einstein shares critical insights into both the genius and hubris of modern physics, linking Einstein's popular downfall through the final decades of his life to the same imagination and self-confidence that ignited his early successes.
Subjects:	Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Physicists -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.
Contents:	Victorian childhood -- Coming of age -- Annus mirabilis -- Only the beginning -- Glimpsing a solution -- Time to think -- Sharpening the tools -- The greatest idea -- True or false? -- Totality -- Cracks in the foundation -- Rising tensions -- The queen of hearts is black -- Finally at ease -- Crushing the upstart -- Uncertainty of the modern age -- Arguing with the dane -- Dispersions -- Isolation in Princeton -- The end.
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LCCN:	2016022348
ISBN:	9780544808560 0544808568 9780544808560 0544808568
Other Number:	932050740
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Control Number:	616112
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Call Number:	BIO Einstein

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