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Cambridge Companion to Einstein

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ISBN-10: 0521535425

ISBN-13: 9780521535427

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michel Janssen, Christoph Lehner

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This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprised of fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's "miracle year," 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einstein's path to the general theory of relativity (1915) and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and…    
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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 575
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Introduction
Einstein's Copernican revolution
Einstein's special theory of relativity and the problems in the electrodynamics of moving bodies that led him to it
Einstein on statistical physics: fluctuations and atomism
The quantum enigma
The experimental challenge of light quanta
'No success like failure …': Einstein's quest for general relativity, 1907-20
Einstein's role in the creation of relativistic cosmology
Einstein, gravitational waves, and the theoretician's regress
Einstein's unified field theory program
Einstein's realism and his critique of quantum mechanics
Einstein and the development of twentieth-century philosophy of science
'A believing rationalist': Einstein and 'the truly valuable' in Kant
Space, time, and geometry
Einstein's politics
Appendix: Special relativity
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