Einstein
Jeho život a vesmír
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Publisher Description
Žiadne iné dielo o Albertovi Einsteinovi nezachytáva život a osobnosť tohto génia tak komplexne ako Einsteinov životopis od Waltera Isaacsona, ktorému sa podarilo jedinečným spôsobom spojiť známe fakty s novými skutočnosťami, získanými z Einsteinových osobných, predtým nezverejnených písomností. Isaacson vo svojej knihe opisuje Einsteinove presvedčenia aj pochybnosti, či už išlo o vedu, politiku, náboženstvo, spoločenské problémy alebo vzťahy – s priateľmi, učiteľmi, oponentmi, kolegami, synmi, manželkami a inými ženami. Okrem samotného Einsteina sa Isaacson venuje aj kľúčovým historickým udalostiam, na pozadí ktorých sa Einstein postupne menil z rebelského nonkonformistu a skoro až radikálneho pacifistu na konzervatívneho vedca. Einsteinov životopis tak ponúka aj ďalšie zaujímavé príbehy: o zrode modernej fyziky, prerode Európy, migrácii vedcov, iniciatíve vytvoriť židovský štát či celosvetovom záujme kontrolovať výrobu zbraní.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of "science's preeminent poster boy" in this lucid account (after 2003's Benjamin Franklin and 1992's Kissinger). Contrary to popular myth, the German-Jewish schoolboy Albert Einstein not only excelled in math, he mastered calculus before he was 15. Young Albert's dislike for rote learning, however, led him to compare his teachers to "drill sergeants." That antipathy was symptomatic of Einstein's love of individual and intellectual freedom, beliefs the author revisits as he relates his subject's life and work in the context of world and political events that shaped both, from WWI and II and their aftermath through the Cold War. Isaacson presents Einstein's research his efforts to understand space and time, resulting in four extraordinary papers in 1905 that introduced the world to special relativity, and his later work on unified field theory without equations and for the general reader. Isaacson focuses more on Einstein the man: charismatic and passionate, often careless about personal affairs; outspoken and unapologetic about his belief that no one should have to give up personal freedoms to support a state. Fifty years after his death, Isaacson reminds us why Einstein (1879 1955) remains one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century. 500,000 firsr printing, 20-city author tour, first serial to Time; confirmed appearance on Good Morning America.
