The Universe in a Nutshell

ALBERT E I N S T E I N , THE DISCOVERER OF THE SPECIAL AND general theories of relativity, was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1 8 7 9 , but the following year the family moved to Munich, where his father, Hermann, and uncle, Jakob, set up a small and not very successful electrical business. Albert was no child prodigy, but claims that he did poorly at school seem to be an exaggeration. In 1 8 9 4 his father’s business failed and the family moved to Milan. His parents decided he should stay behind to finish school, but he did not like its authoritarianism, and within months he left to join his family in Italy. He later completed his education in Zurich, graduating from the prestigious Federal Polytechnical School, known as the ETH, in 1 9 0 0 . His argumentative nature and dislike of authority did not endear him to the professors at the ETH and none of them offered him the position of assistant, which was the normal route to an academic career. Two years later, he finally managed to get a junior post at the Swiss patent office in Bern. It was while he held this job that in 1 9 0 5 he wrote three papers that both established him as one of the world’s leading scientists and started two conceptual revolutions— revolutions that changed our understanding of time,space, and reality itself.

جهت استعلام قیمت و سفارش چاپ این محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرمایید