NCERT CBSE - A Truly Beautiful Mind Summary, Question Answers

 

NCERT CBSE CHPATER 4 - A Truly Beautiful Mind SUMMARY

SUMMARY

A truly beautiful mind is a story about Albert Einstein who was born on 14 March 1879 in Germany.He was unable to speak till the age of two and a half years but when he started speaking he said every word two times and stuttered too much. His mother and headmaster of the school also thought that he was mad and insane and he couldn't do anything. When he was a child in school his classmates never talked to  him because they thought that he was very boring. When he goes into the age at 6 his mother insisted him to learn music then he leant to play violin and became a successful violinist. At the age of 15 his family shifted to Munich where he goes to Munich school but there he felt very uncomfortable. And when he completed his schooling he got admission in the university of zurich. There was a very liberal atmosphere. Everyone was interested in studying. Albert was very interested in physics and mathematics. In the university he met a fellow student  Mileva Marić. She was very intelligent and smart. Both got married and they had two sons but unfortunately they got separated in 1919.  When he completed his education he started to work at the patent office in Bern as a technical specialist.  Also, there he secretly worked on his idea of ​​relativity.He brought out his paper on the special theory of relativity. which follows from the world-famous equation E = mc2.  In 1915, he also published his paper on the General Theory of Relativity. It gave a whole new definition to the concept of gravity. Also, this principle makes him a famous person. And the great scientist died at the age of 76 in the year of 1955.

अ ट्रूली ब्यूटीफुल माइंड अल्बर्ट आइंस्टीन की कहानी है जिनका जन्म 14 मार्च 1879 को जर्मनी में हुआ था। वह ढाई साल की उम्र तक बोलने में असमर्थ थे लेकिन जब उन्होंने बोलना शुरू किया तो वह हर शब्द दो बार कहते थे और बहुत ज्यादा हकलाते थे। उनकी माँ और स्कूल के प्रधानाध्यापक भी सोचते थे कि वह पागल और विक्षिप्त है और कुछ नहीं कर सकते। जब वह स्कूल में बच्चा था तो उसके सहपाठी कभी उससे बात नहीं करते थे क्योंकि उन्हें लगता था कि वह बहुत उबाऊ है। जब वह 6 साल के हुए तो उनकी मां ने उन्हें संगीत सीखने के लिए जोर दिया, तब वह वायलिन बजाने की ओर झुक गए और एक सफल वायलिन वादक बन गए। 15 साल की उम्र में उनका परिवार म्यूनिख चला गया जहां वे म्यूनिख स्कूल गए लेकिन वहां उन्हें बहुत असहजता महसूस हुई। और जब उन्होंने अपनी स्कूली शिक्षा पूरी की तो उन्हें ज्यूरिख विश्वविद्यालय में प्रवेश मिल गया। वहां पर बहुत उदार माहौल था।  सभी को पढ़ाई में रुचि थी।  अल्बर्ट को भौतिकी और गणित में बहुत रुचि थी। विश्वविद्यालय में उनकी मुलाकात एक साथी छात्र मिलेवा मैरिक से हुई। वह बहुत बुद्धिमान और होशियार थी. दोनों ने शादी कर ली और उनके दो बेटे हुए लेकिन दुर्भाग्य से 1919 में वे अलग हो गए। जब ​​उन्होंने अपनी शिक्षा पूरी की तो उन्होंने तकनीकी विशेषज्ञ के रूप में बर्न में पेटेंट कार्यालय में काम करना शुरू कर दिया। साथ ही, वहां उन्होंने गुप्त रूप से सापेक्षता के अपने विचार पर काम किया। उन्होंने सापेक्षता के विशेष सिद्धांत पर अपना पेपर निकाला। जो विश्व-प्रसिद्ध समीकरण E = mc2 से अनुसरण करता है। 1915 में उन्होंने जनरल थ्योरी ऑफ़ रिलेटिविटी पर अपना पेपर भी प्रकाशित किया। इसने गुरुत्वाकर्षण की अवधारणा को एक बिल्कुल नई परिभाषा दी। साथ ही यही सिद्धांत उन्हें एक मशहूर इंसान भी बनाता है. और इस महान वैज्ञानिक का 1955 में 76 वर्ष की आयु में उनकी मृत्यु हो गयी ।

Word Meaning

Destined: भविष्य में कुछ करने के लिए निर्धारित होना  Passage: ALBERT Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in the German city of Ulm, without any indication that he was destined for greatness. Freak: सनकी  Passage: On the contrary, his mother thought Albert was a freak. Utter: बोलना  Passage: When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Amateur : अनुभवहीन  Passage:  All his life, he was an amateur violinist Regimentation: सख्त अनुशासन Passage: Einstein hated the school’s regimentation and often clashed with his teachers. Stifled : दम घुटना  Passage: At the age of 15, Einstein felt so stifled there that he left the school for good.

Questions & Answers:

Q1 Who had these opinions about Einstein?

Q1 Who had these opinions about Einstein?

He was boring. He was stupid and would never succeed in life. He was a freak.

His playmates. A headmaster. His mother

* Explain what the reasons for the following:

Q2 Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.

Answer:

Einstein dropped out of school in Munich because he did not like the discipline of the school. He hated the school system and often had a clash with the teachers.

Q3 Einstein wanted to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.

Answer:

Albert's parents moved to Milan and left Albert with their relatives. Einstein wanted to continue his education in German-speaking Switzerland as it was more liberal than Munich.

Q4 What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?

Answer:

Einstein called his desk drawer "Bureau of Theoretical Physics". Einstein called his drawer by that name because he was developing his ideas in secret and his drawer contained all the evidence that could reveal the secret.

Q5 Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?

Answer:

It was the fact that the Nazis had the capability to make atomic bomb that could destroy the entire world. So he warned in his letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt about the same and Einstein moved to United States of America.

Q6 How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer:

After the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs Einstein was deeply shaken by the destruction and wrote a public letter to the United Nations to form a World Government.