The Cambridge companion to Einstein
The Cambridge companion to Einstein
edited by Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, Christoph Lehner, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- xvi, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge companions to philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-549) and index.
Introduction / Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner -- Einstein's Copernican Revolution / Jèurgen Renn and Robert Rynasiewicz -- Einstein's special theory of relativity and the problems in the electrodynamics of moving bodies that led him to it / John D. Norton -- Einstein on statistical physics: fluctuations and atomism / A.J. Kox -- The quantum enigma / Olivier Darrigol -- The experimental challenge of light quanta / Roger H. Stuewer -- "No success like failure...": Einstein's quest for general relativity, 1907-1920 / Michel Janssen -- Einstein's role in the creation of Relativistic Cosmology / Christopher Smeenk -- Einstein, gravitational waves, and the theoretician's regress / Daniel J. Kennefick -- Einstein's unified field theory program / Tilman Sauer -- Einstein's realism and his critique of quantum mechanics / Christoph Lehner -- Einstein and the development of twentieth-century philosophy of science / Don Howard -- "A believing rationalist": Einstein and "the truly valuable" in Kant / Thomas Ryckman -- Space, time, and geometry / Michael Friedman -- Einstein's politics / Robert Schulmann -- Appendix: Special relativity / Michel Janssen.
9780521535427 (paperback) = EECS-Reference book collection
2013049485
Einstein, Albert,
Physicists--Biography.
Physics--History--20th century.
QC16.E5 / C36 2014
530.092 C144
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-549) and index.
Introduction / Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner -- Einstein's Copernican Revolution / Jèurgen Renn and Robert Rynasiewicz -- Einstein's special theory of relativity and the problems in the electrodynamics of moving bodies that led him to it / John D. Norton -- Einstein on statistical physics: fluctuations and atomism / A.J. Kox -- The quantum enigma / Olivier Darrigol -- The experimental challenge of light quanta / Roger H. Stuewer -- "No success like failure...": Einstein's quest for general relativity, 1907-1920 / Michel Janssen -- Einstein's role in the creation of Relativistic Cosmology / Christopher Smeenk -- Einstein, gravitational waves, and the theoretician's regress / Daniel J. Kennefick -- Einstein's unified field theory program / Tilman Sauer -- Einstein's realism and his critique of quantum mechanics / Christoph Lehner -- Einstein and the development of twentieth-century philosophy of science / Don Howard -- "A believing rationalist": Einstein and "the truly valuable" in Kant / Thomas Ryckman -- Space, time, and geometry / Michael Friedman -- Einstein's politics / Robert Schulmann -- Appendix: Special relativity / Michel Janssen.
9780521535427 (paperback) = EECS-Reference book collection
2013049485
Einstein, Albert,
Physicists--Biography.
Physics--History--20th century.
QC16.E5 / C36 2014
530.092 C144