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Einstein's Mistakes - The Human Failings of Genius (Paperback)
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Einstein's Mistakes - The Human Failings of Genius (Paperback)
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Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the twentieth century,
many of his groundbreaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes,
ranging from serious errors in mathematics to bad misconceptions in
physics and failures to grasp the subtleties of his own creations.
This forensic biography dissects Einstein s scientific mistakes and
places them in the context of his turbulent life and times. In
lively, accessible prose, Hans C. Ohanian paints a fresh,
insightful portrait of the real Einstein at work, in contrast to
the uncritical celebrity worship found in many biographies. Of the
approximately 180 original scientific papers that Einstein
published in his lifetime, about 40 are infested with mistakes. For
instance, Einstein s first mathematical proof of the famous formula
E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled
with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete
proof (better mathematicians did). Einstein was often lured by
irrational and mystical inspirations, but his extraordinary
intuition about physics permitted him to discover profound truths
despite and sometimes because of the mistakes he made along the
way. He was a sleepwalker: his intuition told him where he needed
to go, and he somehow managed to get there without quite knowing
how. As this book persuasively argues, the defining hallmark of
Einstein s genius was not any special mathematical ability but an
uncanny talent to use his mistakes as stepping stones to formulate
his revolutionary theories."
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