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Einstein : His Life And Universe

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This book is more than a record of dates and events; it is an exploration of how a human mind works. Walter Isaacson begins the story with Albert Einstein's childhood in Germany, where he was once thought to be a late bloomer because of speech difficulties, yet possessed a profound curiosity about a compass given by his father. The author takes us into Einstein's youth as a "rebel" who detested rote memorization in school, a perspective highly relatable to junior high students. The narrative continues to his struggling years as a lowly clerk in a Swiss patent office—the very place where he managed to solve the mysteries of light and time through "thought experiments" (Gedankenexperiments).

In the middle sections, the book explains difficult concepts like General Relativity using imaginative language, focusing on Einstein’s visualization rather than mathematical complexity. Isaacson also highlights Einstein’s human side: his love for the violin, his fight against racial discrimination in America, and his regrets regarding science's role in the creation of the atomic bomb. Readers are invited to understand that Einstein's genius was not just about numbers, but about the courage to be different and maintaining a childlike wonder in asking "why?". This book teaches that creativity is the ultimate key to understanding the vast universe.

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Series Title

Bibliografi

Call Number

925.1 ISA e

Publisher

London : Simon & Schuster., 2017

Collation

675 hlm.: ilus.; 13 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4711-7938-9

Classification

925.1

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text

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Edition

1

Subject(s)

Creativity
Theory of Relativity
Modern Physics
Humanism
Patent Office

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