Book ID: CBB000102021

Golden Age of Theoretical Physics (2001)

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Mehra, Jagdish (Author)


World Scientific


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 2 v., xix + 1408 pp., illus.
Language: English

Description Discusses 37 selected essays first presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA covering various aspects of quantum theory, the special and general theories of relativity, the foundations of statistical mechanics, and some of their fundamental applications.


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Authors & Contributors
Polak, Paweł
Schettino, Vincenzo
Peter Lukan
Rogers, David M.
Califano, Salvatore
Malloy, Vanja V.
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Science and Education
Physics Today
Philosophy of Science
Publishers
The MIT Press
Rutgers University Press
Routledge
Princeton University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Firenze University Press
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Relativity, special
Relativity, general
Statistical mechanics
Relativity
People
Einstein, Albert
Zawirski, Zygmunt
Weber, Heinrich
Mach, Ernst
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
19th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
United States
Poland
Europe
Institutions
Princeton University
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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