A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND - CBSE CLASS 9 , ENGLISH BOOK BEEHIVE, PROSE - 4

A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND - CBSE CLASS 9 , ENGLISH BOOK BEEHIVE, PROSE - 4 (SUMMARY & SOLUTIONS)

Prose - 4

A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND

Name of the Characters:-

1. Albert Einstein (The main character of the biography)

2. Mileva Maric (First wife of Einstein)

3. Elsa (Second wife of Einstein)

4. Maja (Sister of Einstein)

5. Mother of Einstein

SUMMARY

                   The story ‘A Truly Beautiful Mind’ is a short biography of the greatest scientist ever – Albert Einstein. After his birth he was thought as a freak because of his too large head. He couldn’t speak till the age of two and half and he was also not interested in playing with his friends outside but only got engaged in the mechanical toys. In school he was not a good student but after reaching in high school,  he scored good marks in almost all subjects . He was born in Germany but yet he didn’t like and tolerate the strict discipline of the schools there, so finally he left the school and with mutual discussion with his parents, got admission in a German speaking Switzerland. There, further he joined the university in Zurich for his degree. He made a friend there named Mileva-Maric whom he used to work on “relativity” with. After becoming a graduate he got his first job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. There, besides his office work, he started working on his own ideas but in secret. Even the extent of his work was as much serious as he used to call his desk drawer “Bureau of Theoretical Physics”. In the newspaper of 1905 Einstein’s “Special Theory of Relativity” with the equation E = mc^2 was published and became the world’s most famous formula that describes the relationship between mass and energy.

                On the other hand, Einstein married to Mileva Maric, few years after the rejection by his mother as Mileva was three years older than Einstein and was a continuous book reader like him. They had two sons but after sixteen years of their marriage, they finally divorsed. But Einstein married his cousin Elsa the same year.

                 By his publication of  “General theory of Relativity”, he interpreted the Gravity and this was proved in a Sun Eclipse of 1919. For this invention he was awarded by the “Nobel Prize for Physics” in 1921. This made him famous in whole the world. After Nazis came to the power in Germany, Einstein emigrated to the United States. There he wrote a letter to the President about the danger of nuclear Bomb, when he came to know that the nuclear fission has been discovered in Germany. The scientists of America, in a secret project of their own, developed the Atomic bomb and dropped it on Japan’s major cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Einstein was shaken by the extent of the destruction because of the bombing and started campaigning against the arms build up in whole the world. He was then began to be known as a character who was inspiring the world for peace and fraternity. After his death in 1955 at the age of 76, the people began to know him not only as a scientific genius but also as a world citizen and a visionary.

                                                                

                                                  

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NCERT SOLUTION FOR CLASS 9 ENGLISH BOOK- BEEHIVE, PROSE - 4, A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND:

( IMPORTANT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS)

Q.1.Here are some headings for paragraphs in the text. Write the number(s) as of the paragraph(s) as for each title against the heading. The first one is done for you.

Answer:

Q.2.Who had these opinions about Einstein?

1. He was boring.

2. He was stupid and would never succeed in life.

3. He was a freak.

Answer:

1. His playmates.

2. A headmaster.

3. His mother.

Q. 3.Explain what the reasons for the following are:

1. Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.

2. Einstein wanting to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.

3. Einstein seeing in Mileva an ally.

4. What do these tell you about Einstein?

Answers:

1. Einstein hated the school’s regimentation, and often clashed with his teachers.

2. Einstein had  his wish to continue his education in German – speaking Switzerland, because the city over there  was more liberal than Munich.

3. Einstein found her to be a “clever creature”. He saw in Mileva Marie an ally against the “Philistines”— those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds. 

4. We can say that Einstein was a determined person and had the capabilities to achieve his targets. he loved to be free  and to think and perform his goals. He had his own view of life. 

Q. 4.What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office ? Why ?

Answer:

Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret.  Einstein jokingly called his desk drawer at the patent office the “bureau of theoretical physics”. 

Q. 5. Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt ?

Answer:

At the urging of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt to  warn him against the Nazis that they could build and use an atomic bombs  which can destroy the Territories at once.

 

Q.6.How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer:

Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. The  atomic bomb devastated the two cities of Japan - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This time he  wrote a public missive to the United Nations. In it he proposed the formation of a world government.

Q. 7.Why does the world remember Einstein as a ‘world citizen’?

Answer:

The world remembers Einstein as a visionary and  ‘world citizen’ because he could think about the future and believed in universal peace. He knew that development of these bombs could make the world in a stage of war and fear for life. So he forced  to believe in peace and humanity. He was really a world citizen.

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Q.8. Here are some facts from Einstein’s life. Arrange them in chronological order.

[  ] Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.

[  ] He is awarded the Nobel Prize in  Physics.

[  ] Einstein writes a letter to U.S.  President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and  warns  against Germany’s building of  an atomic  bomb.

[  ] Einstein attends a high school in  Munich.

[  ] Einstein’s family moves to Milan.

[  ] Einstein is born in the German city of  Ulm.

[  ] Einstein joins a University in Zurich, where he meets Mileva.

[  ] Einstein dies.

[  ] He provides a new interpretation of gravity.

[  ] Tired of the school’s regimentation,  Einstein withdraws from school.

[  ] He works in a patent office as a technical expert.

[  ] When Hitler comes to power, Einstein  leaves Germany for the United States.

Answer:

[ 1 ] Einstein is bom in the German city of   Ulm.

[ 2 ] Einstein attends a high school in Munich.

[ 3 ] Einstein’s family moves to Milan.

[ 4 ] Tired of the school’s regimentation, Einstein withdraws from school.

[ 5 ] Einstein joins a University in Zurich where he meets Mileva.

[ 6 ] He works in a patent office as a technical expert.

[ 7 ] Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity.

[ 8 ] He provides a new interpretation of gravitation.

[ 9 ] He is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

[ 10 ] When Hitler comes to power, Einstein leaves Germany for the United States.

[ 11 ] Einstein writes a letter to U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt and warns against Germany’s building of an atomic bomb.

[ 12 ] Einstein dies.

 

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