E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

By: David Bodanis

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Paperback | 1 August 2001 | Edition Number 1

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The best (ie simplest) explanation of Einstein's theories available!

An accessible narrative history of science, dealing with the most important equation in our lives.

Everyone knows that Einstein's equation is important but they don't usually know why. There are already numerous books that try to describe what the equation means but for most readers they add up to a mass of odd diagrams that are utterly mystifying. This book takes a fresh approach and will concentrate not on the biography of Einstein but on the biography of the equation itself.

David Bodanis looks at the ancestors of the equation, the three elements - e, m and c - before they end up together in Einstein's equation in Berne in 1905. From there he follows the course of the equation through the 20th Century focusing on the people who developed Einstein's work and its consequences. Without the equation for instance there would have been no atomic bomb, no lasers, no Internet and no science of black holes.

"e=mc2" will be a compelling, literary and completely understandable account of what Einstein's equation actually means.

David Bodanis is a scientist and bestselling author. His previous books include "The Secret House" and "The Secret Family". He has broadcast on the BBC and published most forms of journalism including reviews, articles on science and op-ed pieces in many distinguished journals in the UK and abroad.

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'Bodanis himself seems like an intellectual thermonuclear explosion, a kind of Jonathan Miller on speed... This is an outstanding introduction to relativity by a gifted practitioner of popular science1 Independent

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