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Einstein's Greatest Mistake

Autor David Bodanis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2017

Imaginați-vă un om care a rescris legile universului, stând singur în biroul său din Princeton, în timp ce restul lumii științifice avansa într-o direcție pe care el o considera fundamental greșită. Albert Einstein, numele care a devenit sinonim cu geniul absolut, a trăit un paradox tragic: aceleași trăsături de caracter care i-au permis să vizualizeze structura spațiu-timpului l-au condamnat, în a doua parte a vieții, la o izolare intelectuală profundă. Notăm cu interes cum David Bodanis transformă această biografie într-o explorare cinematică a hybrisului științific, demontând mitul infailibilității.

Credem că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea de a arăta cum intuiția sa legendară a devenit o barieră în fața noilor revelații ale mecanicii cuantice. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de alte biografii clasice, Einstein's Greatest Mistake nu se ferește să examineze latura umană, adesea dificilă, a fizicianului, incluzând vocile femeilor din viața sa și impactul pe care personalitatea sa l-a avut asupra relațiilor personale. Stilul este alert, accesibil, dar riguros, fiind punctat de fotografii și diagrame care clarifică conceptele teoretice complexe.

Cine a apreciat portretul monumental din Einstein de Walter Isaacson va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context mai specific și mai intim: cel al eșecului creativ. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum celebrul E=mc2 sau Electric Universe, Bodanis se concentra pe momentele de triumf ale descoperirii, aici el schimbă perspectiva. Autorul poziționează această carte ca o continuare morală a explorărilor sale despre istoria ideilor, arătând că știința nu este doar un șir de succese, ci și o luptă cu propriile prejudecăți. Este un studiu fascinant despre cum marea încredere în sine, motorul revoluției relativității, a devenit în cele din urmă frâna care l-a împiedicat pe Einstein să accepte natura probabilistică a universului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328745521
ISBN-10: 132874552X
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 42 b-w photos and line drawings
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă latura vulnerabilă a unei legende. Dincolo de formulele matematice, este o poveste despre mândrie și limitările minții umane în fața schimbării de paradigmă. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care succesul timpuriu poate modela, dar și bloca, evoluția unui gânditor, totul într-un format grafic ce include fotografii și diagrame explicative extrem de utile.


Despre autor

David Bodanis este un renumit autor și specialist în istoria ideilor, format la Universitatea din Chicago, unde a studiat matematică, fizică și istorie. Timp de mulți ani, a predat cursul „Intellectual Tool-Kit” la Universitatea Oxford, consolidându-și reputația de comunicator de elită al științei. Este autorul bestsellerului internațional E=mc2, tradus în numeroase limbi și adaptat pentru televiziune. Experiența sa diversă include consultanță pentru World Economic Forum și prezentări la conferințele TED, Bodanis fiind recunoscut pentru abilitatea de a umaniza conceptele abstracte și de a extrage narațiuni captivante din datele istorice rigide.


Descriere scurtă

“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well . . . Whenever there’s a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs.” —Popular Science
 
“Fascinating.” —Forbes


Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends. How did this happen? 
  
Best-selling biographer David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein’s life—from the skeptical, erratic student to the world’s most brilliant physicist to the fallen-from-grace celebrity. An intimate biography in which “theories of the universe morph into theories of life” (Times, London), Einstein’s Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today—and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws. 
 

Recenzii

A Sunday Times "Science Book of the Year" (UK)  One of ABC News' “Top Five Science Books of 2016” (Australia)    "Einstein's Greatest Mistake is a pleasure... Bodanis gives voice to the women in Einstein's life, reflecting on their perspectives and quoting them when possible. Bodanis is nonjudgmental, albeit wistful that Einstein didn't accomplish more... [he] achieves a thoroughly engaging and illuminating read. "   —Shelf Awareness   “An intimate biography touching on the romances and rivalries of the celebrated physicist, as much as on his scientific goals, Einstein’s Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today – and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.”   —Bookreporter   "The most fascinating aspect of London-based journalist David Bodanis’ biography Einstein’s Greatest Mistake is in revealing just how much of Einstein’s early success was related to his own dogged perseverance... [Bodanis] recounts the details of Einstein’s inspiration and work on the General Theory of Relativity in clear terms and with more historical context than what is usually found in textbooks."   —Forbes   "This perceptive biography shows how a genius fell out of favour with the scientific world."  —Sunday Times (UK), "Science Book of the Year"    "While we now remember Einstein for his early success and have reinvented him as a meme with crazy hair and sticking his tongue out, [Einstein's Greatest Mistake] reminds us to go beyond the cliché and remember the human — flawed, hubristic and alone — but no less the greatest genius of the modern age."  ?—ABC News (Australia), "Top Five Science Books of 2016"   “The author’s style is highly entertaining. The composition of the manuscript, interweaving stories of people, of scientific principles, of Einstein’s forward vision and troubling challenges, form a narrative that science readers will admire. For anyone interested in the greatest scientist of our time, this book should be required reading.” —Astronomy Magazine   “What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don't think I've ever read a book that does this as well... Whenever there's a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs.”  —Popular Science   "A wonderful exposition of the life of Einstein... It comes... with Bodanis’ talent for explaining the maths and science of Einstein’s work. But the best part is the real feel it gives of Einstein the man, and his thinking."  —Cosmos   “I urge you to buy David Bodanis’s new book Einstein’s Greatest Mistake...it’s a wonderful, fresh and readable take on one of the most fascinating lives in science.”—Tim Harford, bestselling author of The Undercover Economist      “An admiring but critical biography finds the great genius guilty of inflexible thinking in his later years.”—The Observer   “Bodanis has… [an] extraordinary ability to explain complicated physics… Bodanis is a lot like Einstein—minus the great mistake.  Both see fun in physics, both love simplicity and brevity. In this book, theories of th —

Notă biografică

DAVID BODANIS studied mathematics, physics, and history at the University of Chicago, and for many years taught the "Intellectual Tool-Kit" course at Oxford University. The author of many books-including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea-he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos, and most recently helped run an international study for the UK Treasury on the future of high-frequency trading. Bodanis's work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives in London.

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Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends.
This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing. He was a fallible genius. An intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist, Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals how much we owe Einstein today - and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.