Einstein's dreams
A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.
| Main Author: | Lightman, Alan P., 1948- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Vintage Contemporaries,
2004.
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| Edition: | First Vintage Contempories edition. |
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| Summary: |
A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity. |
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| Item Description: |
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1993"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: |
140 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781400077809 140007780X |
| Author Notes: |
In the 1980s, he found a way to combine his literary and scientific interests when he began to write essays about science. He explored astronomy, cosmology, particle physics, space exploration, and the life of a scientist, writing about these topics in a way that makes them understandable to the average reader. Many of his essays can be found in the collections Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe and A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court and Other Essays on Science. He is the author of Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe, which won the Boston Globe's 1991 Critics' Choice award for non-fiction; and is co-author of Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, which received an award from the Association of American Publishers in 1990. In the 1990's, he branched out into fiction, although still with a focus on science. His novels include Einstein's Dreams, Good Benito, and The Diagnosis. (Bowker Author Biography) |