A biography of the world's most famous equation
Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews-this "little masterpiece"* sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world. "This is not a physics book. It is a history of where the equation <E=mc2> came from and how it has changed the world. After a short chapter on the equation's birth, Bodanis presents its five symbolic ancestors in sequence,...
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