Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393337685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Neal J. King said As Joyce said: "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.". I really enjoyed reading this book, because Ohanian covers some ground that I have not seen anywhere else, and he calls it the way he sees it. As a genuine trained relativist, he knows what he is talking about when he argues the physics.However, I believe that he is a bit unfair to Einstein in calling him out for so many "mistakes":- I do not agree that Einstein's argument for time synchronization was a "mistake": It was a REQUIREMENT follow. I don't want to repeat Einstein's mistakes I finished reading Dirac's biography The Strangest Man 3 months ago and started to read this book. Its title intrigued me when I was browsing recent physics releases on Amazon and I bought it. It looks to me like the mix of brief biographical notes with explanation of physical theories. Here learning from mistakes undoubtedly helps to understand special and general relativity better. I also liked the short and clear explanation of EPR parado. Interesting material hampered by attack-dog presentation The text presents a mix of light biography, theory explanation, and analysis of errors in a blend appropriate to support the major thesis--that Einstein made mistakes. The text is well written, generally balanced in structure, and enjoyable. Early chapters develop Einstein's career in the greater field of physics, first presenting the advances of Galileo, Newton, Lorentz, and others. Einstein is then presented as a young man working as a pat
That part of the book is solid, and readers will find a capable guide in Ohanian. From Bookmarks Magazine In Einstein's Mistakes, Hans C. Bring your thinking cap.Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC . Ohanian draws on his own background in physics to gleefully point out some of Einstein's more glaring errors. What might be less engaging is the author's fast-and-loose writing style (Van Gogh became a great artist "when he went bonkers") and a tendency to botch some of the historical facts (related to Einstein's research, his Nobel Prize, and so forth) that underpin much of the narrative. Still, the book's ambitious scope—when calling out Einstein, writers weak of heart need not apply—an
Einstein was often lured by irrational and mystical inspirations, but his extraordinary intuition about physics permitted him to discover profound truths despiteand sometimes because ofthe mistakes he made along the way. This forensic biography dissects Einstein’s scientific mistakes and places them in the context of his turbulent life and times. In lively, accessible prose, Hans C. As this book persuasively argues, the defining hallmark of Einstein’s genius was not any special mathematical ability but an uncanny talent to use his mistakes as stepping stones to formulate his revolutionary theories. 25 illustrations. For instance, Einstein’s first mathematical proof of the famous formula E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete proof (better mathematicians did). Ohanian paints a fresh, insightful portrait of the real Einstein at work, in contrast to the uncritical celebrity worship found in