
CRACKING THE EINSTEIN CODE |
Subtitle:
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
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Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Melia, Fulvio
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 10:
226519511
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ISBN 13:
9780226519517
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Price:
USD 25.00
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
University of Chicago Press. InquiryAlbert 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. UK Price: 17.50 GBP
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