Dimensions
146 x 223 x 30mm
A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Everyone knows that Einstein's equation is important but they don't usually know why. There are already books that try to describe what the equation means but to most they add up to a mass of odd diagrams that are mystifying. This book takes a fresh approach and concentrates on the biography of the equation itself. It looks at the ancestors of the equation, the three elements - e, m and c - before they end up together in Einstein's equation in Berne in 1905. From there we follow the course of the equation through the 20th century, focusing on the people who developed Einstein's work and its consequences.
Without the equation, for instance, there would have been no atomic bomb, no lasers, no Internet, and no science of black holes. This is a compelling, literary and completely understandable account of what Einstein's equation actually means.
