Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909 by Don Howard
This book, for a broad readership, examines the young Einstein from a variety of perspectives - personal, scientific, historical, and philosophical.
Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909
Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909
Summary
This book, for a broad readership, examines the young Einstein from a variety of perspectives - personal, scientific, historical, and philosophical.
Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909 Summary
Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909 Reviews
What was Einstein like for the first thirty years of his life? Who were the personalities who guided him? What did he read? This book, which hopes to shed light on these questions, is a sequence of academic articles written by Einstein specialists for the Birkhauser Einstein Studies series. ...The [book] is remarkably readable and informative. ...Indispensable for Einstein disciples, the book is also accessible to the general reader. The presentation is excellent and the editing conducted to a high standard. ...Extensive references are given after each essay and an index of names is provided.
--The Mathematical Gazette
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to 'Einstein: The Formative Years', John Stachel * 2. The Mysteries and Wonders of Natural Science: Aaron Bernstein's Naturwissenschaftliche Volksb=81cher and the Adolescent Einstein, Frederick Gregory * 3. The Young Einstein's Physics Education: H.F. Weber, Hermann von Helmholtz, and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Instititue, David Cahan * 4. Kant's Impact on Einstein's Thought, Mara Beller * 5. Einstein's Controversy with Drude and the Origin of Statistical Mechanics: A New Glimpse from the 'Love Letters', Juergen Renn * 6. Physical Approximations and Stochastic Processes in Einstein's 1905 Paper on Brownian Motion, Sahotra Sarkar * 7. The Construction of the Special Theory: Some Queries and Considerations, Robert Rynasiewicz * 8. Einstein's Light Quantum Hypothesis: Or Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier?, John Stachel * Index
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NPB9780817636234
9780817636234
0817636234
Einstein the Formative Years, 1879-1909 by Don Howard
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Birkhauser Boston Inc
2014-03-14
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