Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Phillips, Lee

Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics

A revelatory story of the woman who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in...
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Author: Lee Phillips
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Phillips, Lee

Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics

$45.42

Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics

$45.42
Author: Lee Phillips
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A revelatory story of the woman who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination.

Emmy Noether's mathematical genius enabled Einstein to bring his General Theory of Relativity-the basis of our current theory of gravity-to fruition. On a larger scale, what came to be known as "Noether's Theorem"--called by a Nobel laureate "the single most profound result in all of physics"--supplied the basis for the most accurate theory in the history of physics, the Standard Model, which forms our modern theory of matter.

Noether's life story is equally important and revelatory in understanding the pernicious nature of sexual prejudice in the sciences, revealing the shocking discrimination against one of the true intellectual giants of the twentieth century, a woman effectively excluded from the opportunities given to her male counterparts. Noether's personality and optimistic spirit, as Lee Phillips reveals, enabled her unique genius to persevere and arrive at insights that still astonish those who encounter them a century later.

Author: Lee Phillips
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781541702950


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2024
Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 107
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2024

About the Author
After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Dartmouth College and completing his postdoctoral work, Lee Phillips worked for 22 years as a research physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory. For the past decade he has pursued a career as freelance writer, publishing widely in popular science journals. Phillips lives in Honduras, where he writes and conducts research while studying Spanish.

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