{"product_id":"einsteins-heroes","title":"Einstein's Heroes","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately describe things you cannot see or even imagine. Einstein's Heroes takes you on a journey of discovery about just such a miraculous language--the language of mathematics--one of humanity's most amazing accomplishments.    Blending science, history, and biography, this remarkable book reveals the mysteries of mathematics, focusing on the life and work\n\u003cbr\u003eof three of Albert Einstein's heroes: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and especially James Clerk Maxwell, whose work directly inspired the theory of relativity. Robyn Arianrhod bridges the gap between science\n\u003cbr\u003eand literature, portraying mathematics as a language and arguing that a physical theory is a work of imagination involving the elegant and clever use of this language. The heart of the book illuminates how Maxwell, using the language of mathematics in a new and radical way, resolved the seemingly insoluble controversy between Faraday's idea of lines of force and Newton's theory of action-at-a-distance. In so doing, Maxwell not only produced the first complete mathematical description of\n\u003cbr\u003eelectromagnetism, but actually predicted the existence of the radio wave, teasing it out of the mathematical language itself.    Here then is a fascinating look at mathematics: its colorful\n\u003cbr\u003echaracters, its historical intrigues, and above all its role as the uncannily accurate language of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156865675502,"sku":"9780195308907","price":36.63,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195308907.jpg?v=1706216387","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/einsteins-heroes","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}