Einstein
The Formative Years 1879-1909
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Published in October 1999
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-3-7643-4030-8 (ISBN)
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Description
This volume is a collection of original essay, most never published, on Einstein's formative years. Topics are extensive, from Einstein's first wife, to his early readings, university education, and influences that shaped his thinking on statistical mechanics and relativity theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 halftone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-4030-8 (9783764340308)
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Don Howard | John Stachel
Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879 - 1909
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06/2000
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Birkhauser Boston Inc
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Content
Introduction to "Einstein - the Formative Years", John Stachel; the mysteries and wonders of natural science - Aaron Bernstein's "Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher" and the adolescent Eistein, Frederick Gregory; the young Einstein's physics education - H.F. Weber, Hermann von Helmholtz and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Institute, David Cahan; Kant's impact on Einstein's thought, Mara Beller; Einstein's controversy with Drude and the origin of statistical mechanics - an new glimpse from the "Love Letters", Juergen Renn; physical approximations and stochastic processes in Einstein's 1905 paper on Brownian motion, Sahotra Sarkar; the construction of the special theory - some queries and considerations, Robert Rynasiewicz; Einstein's light quantum hypothesis - or why didn't Einstein propose a quantum gas a decade-and-a-half earlier?, John Stachel.