Einstein

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.