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
Polak, Paweł
Sussman, Nathaniel F.
Peliti, Luca
Barbero G., J. Fernando
D'Agostino, Salvo
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Synthese
Science and Education
Physics in Perspective
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Pavia University Press
World Scientific
Rutgers University Press
Princeton University Press
CNRS Éditions
Berlin-Springer
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, special
Statistical mechanics
Relativity, general
Light
Quantum mechanics
People
Einstein, Albert
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Zawirski, Zygmunt
Soldner, Johann Georg von
Rowland, Henry Augustus
Popper, Karl Raimund
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
United States
Poland
Europe
Institutions
Princeton University
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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