Re-opening Einstein’s Thought

Re-opening Einstein’s Thought
Author: Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087906218

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During an interview conducted late in his life, the legendary Swedish Film director Ingmar Bergman was asked about the coming of age. He likened aging to hiking up the side of a mountain: “the longer one walks the more winded one becomes,” he noted. “But,” he added, “the view!” Conrad Pritscher provides us with a breathtaking view of education as it is and can be, one focal point of which is Albert Einstein’s wise views on the subject.

Einstein

Einstein
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847395899

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NOW A MAJOR SERIES 'GENIUS' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSH Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals. All of which helped make Einstein into a rebel but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. This new biography, the first since all of Einstein's papers have become available, is the fullest picture yet of one of the key figures of the twentieth century. This is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius. Praise for EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson:- 'YOU REALLY MUST READ THIS.' Sunday Times 'As pithy as Einstein himself.’ New Scientist ‘[A] brilliant biography, rich with newly available archival material.’ Literary Review ‘Beautifully written, it renders the physics understandable.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Isaacson is excellent at explaining the science. ' Daily Express

Brains Inventing Themselves

Brains Inventing Themselves
Author: Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460917089

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Neuroscience has found that neuroplasticity of brain cells allows brains to invent themselves. Remodeling of brains can be facilitated by schools and universities. What may be done to accelerate that positive inventing so as to prepare for rapidly accelerating change? As an IBM advertisement reads: “It is time to ask smarter questions.” This book helps the reader do that. What is worse than being blind to something? “Being blind to your blindness” says Eric Haseltine who has worked for both Disney and the National Security Agency. Being blind to what our brains can do is slowly changing. Brain researchers recently found that we can now be our own subjects of brain experimentation. Research shows how one can change one’s brain by changing one’s mind. In her 2010 high school valedictorian speech Erica Goldson courageously said: “The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.” This book shows professors, teachers, parents, and interested citizens how students can become aware and reach higher levels of consciousness.

Einstein & Zen

Einstein & Zen
Author: Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781433108709

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This book makes a strong case for free schooling, comparing the mind of Albert Einstein - who said much - to Zen conscious practice, which says little but encompasses everything. Examining the work of brain researchers, neuroscientists, physicists, and other scholars to illuminate the commonalities between Einstein's thought and the Zen practice of paying attention to one's present experience, the book reveals their many similarities, showing the development of self-direction as a key to fostering compassionate consideration of others and to harmonious, semi-effortless learning and living. Examples demonstrate that students who choose to study what is interesting, remarkable, and important for them tend to become more like Einstein than students with the rigid school curricula; students who are free to learn often demonstrate empathy, and less rigid rule-following, while involved in the process of imaginatively becoming their own oracles and self-educators.

Re-Opening Einstein S Thought

Re-Opening Einstein S Thought
Author: Conrad P. Pritscher
Publisher: Sense Pub
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789087906207

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During an interview conducted late in his life, the legendary Swedish Film director Ingmar Bergman was asked about the coming of age. He likened aging to hiking up the side of a mountain: the longer one walks the more winded one becomes, he noted. But, headded, the view! Conrad Pritscher provides us with a breathtaking view of education as it is and can be, one focal point of which is Albert Einstein s wise views on the subject. There is abundant genius in this book, one that parents and policymakers, as well as teachers and students, must read. Then, all can see what Pritscher sees. Then, all can find the path to improving the schools. WILLIAM F. PINAR, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia. It s a wonderful read like his other book insofar that it is what it is talking about, an example of what it is professing. Full of great insights, and drawing on a wide array of sources that break through the hard crusts of conventional thinking. It s beautifully written too, with a clear, simple elegance. DAVID GEOFFREY SMITH, Author of Pedagon and Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire, and the Crises of Pedagogy, International Forum on Education and Society, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Very insightful. SHARON BEGLEY, Science Columnist, Newsweek, Author of Train Your Mind Change your Brain, Co-Author of The Mind and the Brain, frequent guest on radio and television (The Charlie Rose Show, Today Weekend, and CBS s The Early Show)"

When Einstein Walked with Gödel

When Einstein Walked with Gödel
Author: Jim Holt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0374717842

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From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction—and whether the universe truly has a future.

The Mind's I

The Mind's I
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 501
Release: 1981
Genre: Consciousness
ISBN: 9780140062533

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The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
Author: Albert Einstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691207291

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The most comprehensive collection of Einstein quotations ever published Here is the definitive new edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features 400 additional quotes, bringing the total to roughly 1,600 in all. This ultimate edition includes new sections—"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and "Einstein's Verses: A Small Selection"—as well as a chronology of Einstein’s life and accomplishments, Freeman Dyson’s authoritative foreword, and new commentary by Alice Calaprice. In The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, readers will also find quotes by others about Einstein along with quotes attributed to him. Every quotation in this informative and entertaining collection is fully documented, and Calaprice has carefully selected new photographs and cartoons to introduce each section. Features 400 additional quotations Contains roughly 1,600 quotations in all Includes new sections on children, race and prejudice, and Einstein’s poetry Provides new commentary Beautifully illustrated The most comprehensive collection of Einstein quotes ever published

The New Quotable Einstein

The New Quotable Einstein
Author: Albert Einstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780691120744

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A new, updated edition of the ultimate Einstein reference book continues to provide readers with the best window into the life and wisdom of this twentieth-century icon in celebration of the centennial of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, with more than three hundred new quotations, an account of Einstein's final days, a new section "On Aging," and more. Simultaneous.

Proving Einstein Right

Proving Einstein Right
Author: S. James Gates,
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1541762231

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A thrilling adventure story chronicling the perilous journey of the scientists who set out to prove the theory of relativity--the results of which catapulted Albert Einstein to fame and forever changed our understanding of the universe. In 1911, a relatively unknown physicist named Albert Einstein published his preliminary theory of gravity. But it hadn't been tested. To do that, he needed a photograph of starlight as it passed the sun during a total solar eclipse. So began a nearly decade-long quest by seven determined astronomers from observatories in four countries, who traveled the world during five eclipses to capture the elusive sight. Over the years, they faced thunderstorms, the ravages of a world war, lost equipment, and local superstitions. Finally, in May of 1919, British expeditions to northern Brazil and the island of Príncipe managed to photograph the stars, confirming Einstein's theory. At its heart, this is a story of frustration, faith, and ultimate victory--and of the scientists whose efforts helped build the framework for the big bang theory, catapulted Einstein to international fame, and shook the foundation of physics.