Research Catalog
- Title
- Einstein's mistakes : the human failings of genius / Hans C. Ohanian.
- Author
- Ohanian, Hans C.
- Publication
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC7 .O33 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 394 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Ohanian offers insights into aspects of Albert Einstein that many don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 339-373) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology of Einstein's mistakes -- I will resign the game -- A lovely time in Berne -- And yet it moves -- If I have seen farther -- A storm broke loose in my mind -- Motions of inanimate, small, suspended bodies -- What is the light quantum? -- The argument is jolly and beguiling -- Suddenly I had an idea -- The theory is of incomparable beauty -- The world is a madhouse -- Does God play dice? -- The graveyard of disappointed hopes -- Post-mortem.
- ISBN
- 9780393062939 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2008013155
- OCLC
- 214066446
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library