30-Second Einstein: The 50 Fundamentals Of His Work, Life And Legacy, Each Explained In Half A Minute

by Brian Clegg (Editor)

30-Second Einstein provides you with a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, and you will soon have his whole story -both his scientific attainments and his extraordinary life- in your head. With each page packed full of essential information, the 50 engaging entries get you to grips with his work, life, and legacy, from atom to atomic bomb, at approximately the speed of light.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Physics, History, Biography, Popular Science

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Brian's latest books, Ten Billion Tomorrows and How Many Moons does the Earth Have are now available to pre-order. He has written a range of other science titles, including the bestselling Inflight Science, The God Effect, Before the Big Bang, A Brief History of Infinity, Build Your Own Time Machine and Dice World.

Along with appearances at the Royal Institution in London he has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science, has contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Brian has Masters degrees from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and from Lancaster University in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to apply the power of mathematics to warfare. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business.

Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous publications, including Nature, The Guardian, PC Week, Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World, The Observer, Innovative Leader, Professional Manager, BBC History, Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Thai and even Indonesian.

Reviews

[reherrma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ein interessantes Sachbuch über die wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten Albert Einsteins.
Interessant ist auch die Machart, es werden zentrale Aspekte der Physik einzeln vorgestellt, wie die Spezielle- und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, die Quantentheorie, Masse und die Weiterführung der Physik durch Einsteins Endeckungen.
Dies alles in einer 3 Sekunden-Erklärung, einem 30 Sekunden-Quantum und einem 3-Minuten Gedanke. Somit kann man sich selbst einteilen, ob man ein Schlagwort der jeweiligen Theorie lesen will oder eine genauere Betrachtung.
Ein Buch zum Schmökern und zum Nachschlagen...
Alles auch graphisch orginell und nachvollziehbar aufbereitet.
Mir hats gefallen und ich werde es immer wieder in die Hand nehmen, wenn ich etwas nachschlagen will.

[Stellar · Rating 4 out of 5]

With a background in basic physics, this served as a great reminder and connected some dots, but the explanations aren't going to do much for someone that hasn't learnt it already IMO.

[Forked Radish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like ancient science, it’s great when it adheres to the verified empirical, dubious when it advocates the unverified empirical, and downright mythological when it endorses the imaginary orthodoxy of the contemporary “science” community. 30-Second Einstein fits the first category when it discusses verified relativistic and quantum effects like time dilation and entanglement. The second category when it discuses unverified effects like “gravitational waves” and “frame dragging”. The third category when it discusses “spacetime warping”, “time travel”, “universal expansion”, “the big bang” and other laughable nonsense!
PS: the book neglects to mention Einstein’s “mollusc” and the fact that Andromeda has a blue shift.
PPS: someone has unified relativity (a special and general omnibus) with QM. In fact, they are inexorably linked. And that link is via the correct understanding of gravity (both Newton and Einstein were totally wrong) and the person who linked them is a forked radish.
Note: It was a “Guardian” top 10 physicists poll in 2013, not an “Observer” poll and the results were:
1. Newton (in balance, Fig Newtons have contributed more IMO)
2. Bohr
3. Galileo
4. Einstein
5. Maxwell
6. Faraday
7. Curie (Marie, of course, Pierre doesn’t get PC points)
8. Feynman (Bongos!–an epithet and an exclamation)
9. Rutherford
10. Dirac

[Paul Russell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it, not completely sure what It was I read!

[Mimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suitable book to read.... Learn something new

[Annina]

Gibt es auch auf deutsch!

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly easy to read. Not much math. The both the art style and subject matter reminded me much of Puella Magi Magica Madoka.