Word: infeld
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS - Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld-Simon & Schuster...
...Cleveland, at the nine Burrows Brothers stores, the best-seller was The Yearling, closely followed by Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics...
...looked as if the newer books were coming into their own, with C. Vann Woodward's Tom Watson reported as a best-seller in Atlanta, Holy Old Mackinaw a leader on the West Coast, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities popular in the East, and Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics selling widely (3,000 in its first week) all over the country. Last month's published lists boiled down to these headliners...
Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum...
...Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...