An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity

by Harald Fritzsch

Book Overview

Fritzsch offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist. While he introduces the theory of relativity, Fritzsch teaches its sources, its workings, and the ways it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. An Equation That Changed the World dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human race, and the survival of our planet.

"Fritzsch could not give...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226265587
• ISBN13: 9780226265582
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

good start on your quest to learn everything

Using just enough math to give readers a taste for the complexity of the problem, and the elegant solution, Fritzsch introduced me not only to Einstein's great work, but also to the concepts of new and old physics, the problems inherent in both, and to two of the greatest minds in history. This book allowed me, intimidated by the gaping chasm of numbers, cryptic symbols, and big words of "the new physics", to grasp the basic concepts of relativity. The running dialogue and action kept me moderately interested when the concepts became difficult, although that facet of the book was the weakest. (I mean, I think Einstein, Newton, and a modern physicist would be able to think of something a little more captivating to talk about, but, who am I to judge?) All in all, a great intro for seekers of knowledge into the depths of modern physics.