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AuthorArianrhod, Robyn.TitleEinstein’s heroes : imagining the world through the language of mathematics / Robyn Arianrhod.PublishedOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Description323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

LinkTable of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026055.html
Gen. noteOriginally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2003.
NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ContentsA seamless intertwining -- A reluctant revolutionary -- Beetles, strings and sealing wax -- The nature of physics -- The language of physics -- Why Newton held the world in thrall -- Rites of passage -- A fledgling physicist -- Electromagnetic controversy -- Mathematics as language -- The magical synthesis of algebra an geometry -- Maxwell’s mathematical language -- Maxwell’s rainbow -- Imagining the world with the language of mathematics: a revolution in physics.
ISBN0195183703 (hardcover : acid-free paper)Per.Sub.Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
SubjectMathematical physics -- History.
Physicists -- Biography.
Science -- Popular works.

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