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“One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Understand how Einstein came to write the most famous equation in history and see how the world was changed forever.Broken into 10 bite-sized chapters, this ste

In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Rhorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant