Einstein：His Life and Universe

图书标准信息

• 作者 Walter Isaacson（沃尔特·艾萨克森） 著
• 出版社 Oversea Publishing House
• 出版时间 2007-04
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780743264730
• 定价 303.60元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 448页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Bytheauthoroftheacclaimedbestseller'BenjaminFranklin',thisisthefirstfullbiographyofAlbertEinsteinsinceallofhispapershavebecomeavailable.Howdidhismindwork?Whatmadehimagenius?Isaacson'sbiographyshowshowhisscientificimaginationsprangfromtherebelliousnatureofhispersonality.Hisfascinatingstoryisatestamenttotheconnectionbetweencreativityandfreedom.BasedonnewlyreleasedpersonallettersofEinstein,thisbookexploreshowanimaginative,impertinentpatentclerk-astrugglingfatherinadifficultmarriagewhocouldn'tgetateachingjoboradoctorate-becamethemindreaderofthecreatorofthecosmos,thelocksmithofthemysteriesoftheatomandtheuniverse.Hissuccesscamefromquestioningconventionalwisdomandmarvelingatmysteriesthatstruckothersasmundane.Thisledhimtoembraceamoralityandpoliticsbasedonrespectforfreeminds,freespirits,andfreeindividuals.Thesetraitsarejustasvitalforthisnewcenturyofglobalization,inwhichoursuccesswilldependonourcreativity,astheywereforthebeginningofthelastcentury,whenEinsteinhelpedusherinthemodernage.

【作者简介】

WalterIsaacson,theCEOoftheAspenInstitute,hasbeenchairmanofCNNandthemanagingeditorofTimemagazine.HeistheauthorofEinstein:HisLifeandUniverse;BenjaminFranklin:AnAmericanLife;andKissinger:ABiography,andthecoauthorofTheWiseMen:SixFriendsandtheWorldTheyMade.HelivesinWashington,DC.

【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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