Physics in My Generation
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1969
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Paperback/Softback
VII, 172 pages
978-0-387-90008-7 (ISBN)
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Professor Born, one of the most distinguished physicists of our time, has selected some of his most popular writings covering a period of thirty years, framed between his introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1921) and the postscript to the American edition of The Restless Universe (1951). It includes several discussions of Einstein's work, a short autobiography and articles dealing with the philosophical background of physics and its revolutionary changes during Professor Born's lifetime. Each treatment of a problem illuminates it from a different angle - all of them from a personal point of view.
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to 'Einstein's Theory of Relativity' (1921).- Physical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics.- On the Meaning of Physical Theories.- Cause, Purpose, and Economy in Natural Laws.- Einstein's Statistical Theories.- Physics in the Last Fifty Years.- Is Classical Mechanics in Fact Deterministic?.- Astronomical Recollections.- Statistical Interpretation of Quantum mechanics.- Physics and Relativity.- Development and Essence of the Atomic Age.- A New Year's Message.- Symbol and Reality.- What is Left to Hope for?.- in Memory of Einstein.- From the Postscript to 'The Restless Universe' (1951).