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SECRETS OF THE OLD ONE - JEREMY BERNSTEIN KARTO...

Beginning on the 18th of March  1905 at approximately eight week intervals  the noted German
physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively
unknown patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert
Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century physics. A fourth
short paper was received by the journal on the 27th of September. It contained Einstein's
derivation of the formula E=mc2. These papers with their many technological ramifications
changed our lives in the twentieth century and beyond. While to a professional physicist the
mathematics in these papers is quite straight forward  the ideas behind the mathematics are
not. In fact  none of Einstein's contemporaries fully understood what he had done. The goal of
this book is to make these ideas accessible to a general reader with no more mathematics than
one learns in high school. PRAISE FOR BOOK: With wonderfully chosen digressions and some
sophisticated physics plus the minimum amount of math to support it  Jeremy Bernstein has
produced a charming account of Einstein's epoch-making papers of 1905. Here is surely the
thinking person's guide to Einstein's 'Miracle Year. -Owen Gingerich  Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics  Author  The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus
Copernicus Why are physicists celebrating the centenary of Einstein's miracle year? In this gem
of a book-and in simple words-Bernstein explains how young Albert  in that one year  set the
foundation to a century of progress in physics. -Sheldon L. Glashow  Winner of the 1979 Nobel
Prize inPhysics  Professor  Boston University

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