![]() ![]() Includes detailed, lively, and fascinating back matter…His acknowledgementsĮnd, ‘I loved writing this book.’ It shows.” - Cleveland Plain DealerĪstonishingly understandable book that celebrates human achievement and After a short chapter on the equation’s birth,īodanis presents its five symbolic ancestors in sequence, each with its ownĬhapter and each with rich human stories of achievement and failure,Įncouragement and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge…Bodanis It is a history of where the equation came from and how ![]() Through each symbol separately, including the = sign…There is a great ‘aha!’Īwaiting the lay reader.” - St. ![]() Understand the meaning and implications of that equation, as Bodanis takes us What its subtitle says it is: a biography of the world’s most famous equation,Īnd it succeeds beautifully. “E=mc2, focusing on the 1905 theory of special relativity, is just ![]()
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