101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein,9781593373887

101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein

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ISBN13: 9781593373887
ISBN10: 1593373880
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

Just about everyone knows Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But who realizes he worked to develop hearing aids? Or that a student actually spotted a mistake in one of his papers? and who would ever guess what happed to Einstein's brain after he died? Filled with these and other interesting, intriguing anecdotes, 101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein takes a novel approach to the life and work of this fascinating icon.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Part 1. Einstein's Personal Background and Family Life
1(36)
Einstein's parents and extended family: genealogy of the genius
2(2)
Music in Einstein's early years
4(2)
Einstein's sister Maja Einstein Winteler
6(1)
Einstein and other famous dyslexics
7(3)
Einstein's first wife Mileva Maric Einstein
10(2)
Einstein's daughter Liserl Einstein
12(1)
Einstein's elder son Hans Albert Einstein
13(2)
Einstein's younger son Eduard Einstein
15(2)
What kind of father was Einstein?
17(2)
Why Einstein worked at the patent office
19(3)
Einstein's reputation as a womanizer
22(2)
Einstein's move to Berlin
24(2)
Einstein's second wife Elsa Lowenthal Einstein
26(2)
Einstein's stepdaughters Ilse and Margot Einstein
28(1)
Einstein's grandchildren
29(1)
Einstein and major health crises
30(2)
Einstein and public speaking
32(1)
Einstein and sailing
33(1)
What happened to Einstein's brain?
34(3)
Part 2. Comparisons and Contemporaries
37(45)
Einstein versus Galileo: theories of gravity
38(3)
Einstein's response to Isaac Newton
41(2)
Similarities Einstein drew from Darwinian ideas
43(3)
Einstein and the Wright brothers
46(1)
How was Einstein like Edison?
47(2)
How was Einstein like Leonardo da Vinci?
49(2)
How was Einstein like Michelangelo?
51(3)
Einstein and Bauhaus
54(2)
Einstein at odds with Maxwell over electromagnetism
56(3)
Einstein's collaborations with Fermi
59(2)
Einstein's debates with Bohr
61(3)
The Olympia Academy
64(2)
Einstein's letters to Freud
66(2)
Einstein's relationship with Marie Curie
68(2)
Einstein's response to Schrodinger's equation
70(3)
How Einstein's work overlapped with the work of Max Planck
73(2)
Major inventions during Einstein's lifetime
75(3)
The scientific background of Einstein's time
78(4)
Part 3. Scientific Theories
82(77)
Einstein and the scientific method
83(3)
Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem
86(2)
Einstein's adaptation of Euclidian geometry
88(2)
Einstein's first exposure to science: the magnetic compass
90(2)
Acceleration and gravity: Einstein's principle of equivalence
92(3)
Einstein and the cosmological principle
95(3)
Einstein's approach to a unified field theory
98(4)
Einstein's first paper of 1905: photoelectric effect
102(2)
Einstein's greatest blunder: the cosmological constant
104(3)
Einstein's second paper of 1905: Brownian motion
107(3)
Einstein's support of Bose's theory of photon spin
110(2)
Einstein's third paper of 1905: special relativity
112(7)
Einstein's thought-experiments
119(3)
Einstein's formulation of Avogadro's number
122(3)
Einstein's law of gravitation
125(1)
The math error even Einstein couldn't find
126(2)
The Expanding universe?
128(3)
Gravitational redshift
131(3)
The history of E = mc2
134(4)
Laying the groundwork for quantum theory
138(5)
Why Einstein didn't believe in quantum mechanics
143(4)
The curvature of space-time
147(3)
The perihelion of Mercury
150(1)
Time travel
151(2)
Why is the sky blue? (critical opalescence)
153(3)
Wormholes
156(3)
Part 4. War, Religion, and Politics
159(30)
Einstein the pacifist
160(2)
Einstein and Judaism
162(2)
Einstein's views on God
164(3)
How did WWI affect Einstein?
167(3)
Einstein and the Nazi party
170(2)
Einstein's work with refugees
172(2)
Why Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt
174(2)
Was Einstein responsible for the atomic bomb?
176(2)
Einstein rejected for the Manhattan Project
178(2)
Einstein's reaction to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
180(2)
Einstein's antinuclear work continued by Bertrand Russell
182(3)
Einstein: president of Israel?
185(2)
Einstein's ties to Israel and Judaism
187(2)
Part 5. Awards, Achievements, and Other Intellectual Pursuits
189(21)
Einstein and the ETH
190(2)
Einstein and the Nobel Prize
192(2)
How much did Einstein's first wife Mileva contribute to his Nobel Prize-winning theories?
194(2)
Einstein and the founding of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
196(2)
Einstein as a university lecturer
198(2)
Einstein's professional affiliations
200(2)
Einstein's other patents: the compass
202(2)
Einstein's other patents: the hearing aid
204(2)
The refrigerator pump with Szilard
206(2)
Einstein's later awards and honors
208(2)
Part 6. Future Impact and Influence
210
Test of general relativity: Gravity Probe B
211(2)
Bose-Einstein condensates
213(2)
Einstein's dreams of world government and peace
215(2)
Einstein's work as precursor for GPS
217(2)
Einstein in popular media
219(2)
Schwarzschild using Einstein's results for black holes
221(1)
Why Einstein's greatest blunder might actually have been right
222(2)
Einstein and the image of genius: what he looked like in 1905 compared with later in his life
224(1)
Baby Einstein
225(1)
Einstein College of Medicine and other tributes
226(2)
Einsteinium
228(2)
Einstein: Person of the Century
230(2)
Einstein on the Beach
232(3)
How was Einstein a genius? Definition of a genius
235(2)
``Beyond Einstein''
237
Index xi

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