Book ID: CBB000110592

Einstein: The formative years, 1879-1909 (2000)

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Howard, Don A. (Editor)
Stachel, John J. (Editor)


Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: viii + 258 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Language: English

Description Contents: John Stachel, Introduction; Frederick Gregory, The Mysteries and Wonders of Natural Science: Aaron Bernstein's Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher and the Adolescent Einstein; David Cahan, The Young Einstein's Physics Education: H. F. Weber, Hermann von Helmholtz, and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Institute; Mara Beller, Kant's Impact on Einstein's Thought; Juergen Renn, Einstein's Controversy with Drude and the Origin of Statistical Mechanics: A New Glimpse from the Love Letters; Robert Rynasiewicz, The Construction of the Special Theory: Some Queries and Considerations; Sahotra Sarkar, Physical Approximations and Stochastic Processes in Einstein's 1905 Paper on Brownian Motion; John Stachel, Einstein's Light Quantum Hypothesis: Or Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas Twenty Years Earlier?


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Authors & Contributors
Abiko, Seiya
Born, Max
Bracco, Christian
Campisi, Michele
Darrigol, Olivier
Giannetto, Enrico R. A.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Physics in Perspective
Science and Education
Publishers
Berlin-Springer
CNRS Éditions
Princeton University Press
Rutgers University Press
The MIT Press
World Scientific
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, special
Relativity, general
Relativity
Philosophy of science
Quantum mechanics
People
Einstein, Albert
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Born, Max
Dingle, Herbert
Faraday, Michael
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Europe
Poland
United States
Ukraine
Cracow (Poland)
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
Princeton University
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