0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics

Buy Now

Cracking the Einstein Code (Hardcover) Loot Price: R796
Discovery Miles 7 960

Cracking the Einstein Code (Hardcover)

Fulvio Melia

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 | Repayment Terms: R75 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein's mathematical code--represented by six interlocking equations--was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr's solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground--at long last--for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein's code.

Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr's great discovery. "Cracking the Einstein Code "vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior.

By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein's field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, "Cracking the Einstein Code" is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.

General

Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2009
First published: October 2009
Authors: Fulvio Melia
Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51951-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics > General
LSN: 0-226-51951-1
Barcode: 9780226519517

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners