Taking Einstein Further
Take it even further...
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Relative, stranger
When offered the presidency of Israel, Einstein declined claiming he had no head for problems. A different claim is made Einstein's work.
Einstein: the lecture
A violinist as well as a physicist, Mark explores the hidden talents and secret subatomic history of Einstein.
Explore Einstein more extensively with our suggestions of books, weblinks and courses.
Books
Einstein's own works:
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Ideas and Opinions
The Evolution of Physics
The World As I See It
The Principle of Relativity
Putting his work in context:
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics
Edited by John Satchel
This book republishes the five papers Einstein produced in 1905, along with an introduction explaining why that year, and those papers, would change physics forever.
Weblinks
Norfolk Science - his links with America, Switzerland and Israel are well-documented, but did you know Einstein also lived briefly in East Anglia?
Astronomy timeline - discover how Einstein's discoveries fit into the history of astronomy
Rap the key to explain relativity - BBC News Online reports how a DJ Vader track inspired by Einstein has been adopted by the Institute of Physics
Einstein and Newton 'had autism' - BBC News Online reports on suggestions that Einstein's insights may have been a result of autism
Einstein revealed - website supporting the US Nova tv programme on the life and works
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Courses
S357 - Space, Time and Cosmology - The ideas of relativity, though subtle, are not complicated and can be grasped without a wide knowledge of physics. Through them the nature of space and time can best be understood. The course covers Newtonian ideas about space, time and moving bodies; Einstein’s special theory of relativity; changes that general relativity has made to our understanding of space and time, and the meaning of ‘curved spacetime’, including ‘black holes’.
MA290 - Topics in the History of Mathematics - The manipulation of equations was vital to the work of Einstein, and this course studies how the science of mathematics developed from earliest principles to the point where it became the key to the understanding of everything.
Content last updated: 08/10/2004
