爱因斯坦EINSTEIN

分类: 图书,进口原版书,文学 Literature,
作者: Walter Isaacson Walter Isaacson著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 2007-12-1字数:版次:页数: 676印刷时间: 2007/04/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780743264730包装: 精装内容简介
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate -- became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
目录
Acknowledgments
Main Characters
CHAPTER ONE
The Light-Beam Rider
CHAPTER TWO
Childhood, 1879-1896
CHAPTER THREE
The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900
CHAPTER FOUR
The Lovers, 1900-1904
CHAPTER FIVE
The Miracle Year." Quanta and Molecules, 1905
CHAPTERSIX
Special Relativity, 1905
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Happiest Thought, 1906-1909
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Wandering Professor, 1909-1914
CHAPTER NINE
General Relativity, 1911-1915
CHAPTER TEN
Divorce, 1916-1919
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Einstein's Universe, 1916-1919
CHAPTER TWELVE
Fame, 1919
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Wandering Zionist, 1920-1921
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Nobel Laureate, 1921-1927
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Unified Field Theories, 1923-1931
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Turning Fifty, 1929-1931
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Einstein's God 384
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The Refugee, 1932-1933
CHAPTER NINETEEN
America, 1933-1939
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
EPILPGUE
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Noter
Index