God's Equation (Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe)

Author: (American) Amir D. Aczel, translated by Xue Mi
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The book God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe by internationally renowned mathematician Amir D. Aczel is his follow-up work after Fermat's Enigma. If Aczel transformed dry and complex mathematical knowledge into something easily understandable in Fermat's Enigma, then this book, which delves into knowledge and the lives of scientists, God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, is equally outstanding and engaging. In this book, rich in historical facts and written through discussions and exchanges with numerous renowned scholars and experts, Aczel allows Einstein and his theories to explain the new developments in cosmology, the study of the nature of the universe, and elaborates on the connection established between cosmology and relativity due to Einstein's "cosmological constant." The book also reveals the rarely explored human side of Einstein and discloses some letters of Einstein from private collections. These letters paint a new picture of Einstein's interpersonal relationships with other scientists, including his early efforts to prove his revolutionary theory that strong gravity would bend light.