Einstein from "B" to "Z"
A collection of 37 articles on Albert Einstein. It debunks many of the old myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. It also discusses Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity.
Einstein studies, Vol. 9
History
XI, 556 S. Ill. 24 cm
9783764341435, 9780817641436, 3764341432, 0817641432
237532460
Introduction Part I: The Human Side Albert Einstein: The Man Beyond the Myth Albert Einstein Albert Einstein: (1879-1955) The Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric: A Collaboration that Failed to Develop Einstein's Jewish Identity Einstein on Civil Liberty Einstein and the "Research Passion" Part II: Editing the Einstein Papers "A Man of My Type"---Editing the Einstein Papers Introduction to the Guide to the Duplicate Einstein Archive and Control Index Part III: Surveys of Einstein's Work Introduction to Einstein: The Formative Years The Other Einstein: Einstein Contra Field Theory Part IV: Special Relativity "What Song the Syrens Sang": How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity? Einstein and Ether Drift Experiments Einstein and Michelson: The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification Einstein on the Theory of Relativity Einstein's First Derivation of Mass--Energy Equivalence Part V: General Relativity Einstein's Odyssey: His Journey from Special to General Relativity The Genesis of General Relativity The Rigidly Rotating Disk as the "Missing Link" in the History of General Relativity The First Two Acts How Einstein Discovered General Relativity: A Historical Tale with Some Contemporary Morals Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912-1915 Belated Decision in the Hilbert--Einstein Priority Dispute The Origin of Gravitational Lensing: A Postcript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper New Light on the Einstein--Hilbert Priority Question Part VI: Quantum Theory Einstein and the Quantum: Fifty Years of Struggle Einstein and Quantum Mechanics Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis, or Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier? Part VII: Einstein and Others Einstein and Newton Eddington and Einstein Einstein and Infeld: Seen through their Correspondence Lanczos's Early Contributions to Relativity and His Relationship with Einstein Einstein and Bose Einstein and 'Zweistein' Part VIII: Book Reviews 'Subtle is the Lord' ... The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais Albert Einstein: A Biography by Albert Folsing
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