Albert Einstein: And the Frontiers of Physics

by Jeremy Bernstein

Book Overview

Albert Einstein did not impress his first teachers. They found him a dreamy child without an especially promising future. But some time in his early years he developed what he called "wonder" about the world. Later in life, he remembered two instances from his childhood--his fascination at age five with a compass and his introduction to the lucidity and certainty of geometry--that may have been the first signs of what was to come. From these ordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195092759
• ISBN13: 9780195092752
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12