
101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein
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101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientist and mathematician?including details about his personal life, scientific discoveries, interactions with his contemporaries, thoughts on war, religion, and politics, and his impact on the world since his death.
Whether you're seeking inspiration, information, or interesting and entertaining trivia, this book contains everything you need to know about Albert Einstein!
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Shana Priwer has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in architecture with minors in math and art history. She earned her master's degree in architecture from Harvard University and currently works with a software company in San Francisco. As a technical writer, she has collaborated with Cynthia Phillips on a variety of projects. She is the coauthor of 101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Part 1. Einstein's Personal Background and Family Life
- 1. Einstein's Parents and Extended Family: Genealogy of the Genius
- 2. Music in Einstein's Early Years
- 3. Einstein's Sister Maja Einstein Winteler
- 4. Was Einstein Dyslexic?
- 5. Einstein's First Wife Mileva Maric Einstein
- 6. Einstein's Daughter Lieserl Einstein
- 7. Einstein's Elder Son Hans Albert Einstein
- 8. Einstein's Younger Son Eduard Einstein
- 9. What Kind of Father Was Einstein?
- 10. Why Einstein Worked at the Patent Office
- 11. Einstein's Reputation As a Womanizer
- 12. Einstein's Move to Berlin
- 13. Einstein's Second Wife Elsa Löwenthal Einstein
- 14. Einstein's Stepdaughters Ilse and Margot Einstein
- 15. Einstein's Grandchildren
- 16. Einstein and Major Health Crises
- 17. Einstein and Public Speaking
- 18. Einstein and Sailing
- 19. What Happened to Einstein's Brain?
- Part 2. Comparisons and Contemporaries
- 20. Einstein versus Galileo: Theories of Gravity
- 21. Einstein's Response to Isaac Newton
- 22. Similarities Einstein Drew from Darwinian Ideas
- 23. Einstein and the Wright Brothers
- 24. How Was Einstein Like Edison?
- 25. How Was Einstein Like Leonardo da Vinci?
- 26. How Was Einstein Like Michelangelo?
- 27. Einstein and Bauhaus
- 28. Einstein at Odds with Maxwell over Electromagnetism
- 29. Einstein's Collaborations with Fermi
- 30. Einstein's Debates with Bohr
- 31. The Olympia Academy
- 32 . Einstein's Letters to Freud
- 33. Einstein's Relationship with Marie Curie
- 34. Einstein's Response to Schrödinger's Equation
- 35. How Einstein's Work Overlapped with the Work of Max Planck
- 36. Major Inventions During Einstein's Lifetime
- 37. The Scientific Background of Einstein's Time
- Part 3. Scientific Theories
- 38. Einstein and the Scientific Method
- 39. Einstein's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
- 40. Einstein's Adaptation of Euclidian Geometry
- 41. Einstein's First Exposure to Science: The Magnetic Compass
- 42. Acceleration and Gravity: Einstein's Principle of Equivalence
- 43. Einstein and the Cosmological Principle
- 44. Einstein's Approach to a Unified Field Theory
- 45. Einstein's First Paper of 1905: Photoelectric Effect
- 46. Einstein's Greatest Blunder: The Cosmological Constant
- 47. Einstein's Second Paper of 1905: Brownian Motion
- 48. Einstein's Support of Bose's Theory of Photon Spin
- 49. Einstein's Third Paper of 1905: Special Relativity
- 50. Einstein's Thought-Experiments
- 51. Einstein's Formulation of Avogadro's Number
- 52. Einstein's Law of Gravitation
- 53. The Math Error Even Einstein Couldn't Find
- 54. The Expanding Universe?
- 55. Gravitational Redshift
- 56. The History of E = mc²
- 57. Laying the Groundwork for Quantum Theory
- 58. Why Einstein Didn't Believe in Quantum Mechanics
- 59. The Curvature of Space-Time
- 60. The Perihelion of Mercury
- 61. Time Travel
- 62. Why Is the Sky Blue? (Critical Opalescence)
- 63. Wormholes
- Part 4. War, Religion, and Politics
- 64. Einstein the Pacifist
- 65. Einstein and Judaism
- 66. Einstein's Views on God
- 67. How Did World War I Affect Einstein?
- 68. Einstein and the Nazi Party
- 69. Einstein's Work with Refugees
- 70. Why Einstein Wrote a Letter to President Roosevelt
- 71. Was Einstein Responsible for the Atomic Bomb?
- 72. Einstein Rejected for the Manhattan Project
- 73. Einstein's Reaction to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 74. Einstein's Antinuclear Work Continued by Bertrand Russell
- 75. Einstein: President of Israel?
- 76. Einstein's Ties to Israel and Judaism
- Part 5. Awards, Achievements, and Other Intellectual Pursuits
- 77. Einstein and the ETH
- 78. Einstein and the Nobel Prize
- 79. How Much Did Einstein's First Wife Mileva Contribute to His Nobel Prize-Winning Theories?
- 80. Einstein and the Founding of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
- 81. Einstein As a University Lecturer
- 82. Einstein's Professional Affiliations
- 83. Einstein's Other Patents: The Compass
- 84. Einstein's Other Patents: The Hearing Aid
- 85. The Refrigerator Pump with Szilard
- 86. Einstein's Later Awards and Honors
- Part 6. Future Impact and Influence
- 87. Bose-Einstein Condensates
- 88. Einstein's Dreams of World Government and Peace
- 89. Einstein's Work Leads to GPS
- 90. Einstein in Popular Media
- 91. Schwarzschild Uses Einstein's Results in Theorizing Black Holes
- 92. Why Einstein's Greatest Blunder Might Actually Have Been Right
- 93. Einstein and the Image of Genius: What He Looked Like in 1905 Compared with Later in His Life
- 94. Einstein As Inspiration
- 95. Einstein in Popular Culture
- 96. Baby Einstein
- 97. Einstein College of Medicine and Other Tributes
- 98. Einsteinium
- 99. Einstein: Person of the Century
- 100. Einstein on the Beach: A Genius in Opera
- 101. How Was Einstein a Genius? Defining Genius
- About the Authors
- Index
- Copyright
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