Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics:
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Main Author: Bernstein, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1996
Series:Oxford portraits in science
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world
How I did not get to meet Albert Einstein -- - ch. 1 - einstein when young -- - Sidebar : Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem -- - ch. 2 - The miracle year -- - Sidebar : a short history of light theory -- - ch. 3 - The strange story of the quantum -- - Sidebar : how cavity, or blackbody, radiation became a pivotal point in physics -- - Sidebar : light quanta -- - ch. 4 - Professor Einstein's happiest thought -- - Sidebar : what makes a geometry Euclidean? -- - ch. 5 - Einstein's cosmology -- - Ch. 6 - The stranger story of the quantum -- - Sidebar : how to detect crank physics -- - ch. 7 - 112 Mercer Street -- - ch. 8 - Einstein's legacy -- - Coda : how I did get to see Einstein -- - appendix - The Michelson-Morley experiment
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (189 p.)
ISBN:1429462167
9781429462167

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