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|a Arianrhod, Robyn.
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|a Einstein's heroes :
|b imagining the world through the language of mathematics /
|c Robyn Arianrhod.
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|a Oxford ;
|a New York :
|b Oxford University Press,
|c c2005.
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|a 323 p. :
|b ill. ;
|c 22 cm.
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|a Originally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2003.
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|t A seamless intertwining --
|t A reluctant revolutionary --
|t Beetles, strings and sealing wax --
|t The nature of physics --
|t The language of physics --
|t Why Newton held the world in thrall --
|t Rites of passage --
|t A fledgling physicist --
|t Electromagnetic controversy --
|t Mathematics as language --
|t The magical synthesis of algebra and geometry --
|t Maxwell's mathematical language --
|t Maxwell's rainbow --
|t Imagining the world with the language of mathematics : a revolution in physics.
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|a "Blending science, history, and biography, this book reveals the mysteries of mathematics, focusing on the life and work of three of Albert Einstein's heroes: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and especially James Clerk Maxwell, whose portrait hung on Einstein's laboratory wall and whose work directly inspired the theory of relativity. In this book, Robyn Arianrhod bridges the gap between science and literature, portraying mathematics as a language and arguing that a physical theory is a work of imagination involving the elegant and clever use of this language. Her narrative centers on the work of Maxwell, the first scientist to embrace the ambiguous relationship between language and reality - the first to accept that, in a very real sense, language is reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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|a Maxwell, James Clerk,
|d 1831-1879.
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|a Einstein, Albert,
|d 1879-1955.
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|a Mathematical physics
|x History.
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|a Physicists
|v Biography.
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|v Popular works.
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|a 2005-09-05
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|a Created by sico, 05/09/2005. Updated by tist, 04/11/2005.
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|a University Of Canterbury
|b UC Libraries
|c EPS Library
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|e QC 19.6 .A696 2005
|h Library of Congress classification
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