Einstein the Formative Years, 1879–1909
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-3623-4 (ISBN)
This volume brings together some of the best recent scholarship on
what might be termed Einstein's formative period, that is, the thirty
years before he obtained his first academic position in 1909.
Topics covered include Einstein's early reading and his university
education, his early views on scientific method and some of the
crucial philosophical influences shaping those views, his early work
on statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, quantum theory, relativity
theory, and his youthful vision of a unified foundation for physics.
Seven of the eight papers appear here in print for the first time.
The contributors draw extensively upon much of the interesting new
documentation, such as personal letters, including love letters to his
fiancee, and unpublished manuscripts, that has come to light in the
course of work on the first several volumes of {/it The Collected
Papers of Albert Einstein}.
This engaging book examining the young Einstein from a variety of
perspectives---personal, scientific, historical, and philosophical---
will be accessible to a broad general readership.
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
| Reihe/Serie | Einstein Studies ; 8 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 258 p. |
| Verlagsort | Secaucus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
| Schlagworte | philosophy of science |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8176-3623-4 / 0817636234 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8176-3623-4 / 9780817636234 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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