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"E=mc2, focusing on the 1905 theory of special relativity, is just what its subtitle says it is: a biography of the world's most famous equation, and it succeeds beautifully. Readers meet not only famous scientists at their best and worst but also such famous and infamous characters as Voltaire and Marat.Bodanis includes detailed, lively and fascinating back matter.His acknowledgements end, 'I loved writing this book.' It shows." ( The Cleveland Plain Dealer) After a short chapter on the equation's birth, Bodanis presents its five symbolic ancestors in sequence, each with its own chapter and each with rich human stories of achievement and failure, encouragement and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge. It is a history of where the equation came from and how it has changed the world. Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews-this "little masterpiece"* sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.
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