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Einstein's Mistakes The Human Failings of Genius

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Einstein's Mistakes The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian

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About the book

Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the twentieth century, many of his ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics. For instance, Einstein's first theoretical 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). In this provocative forensic biography, Hans C. ...Show more

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9780393062939

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Einstein's Mistakes The Human Failings of Genius

Format

Hardcover

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