| Description |
xiv, 255 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24cm |
| Contents |
Einstein's education: mathematics and the laws of nature -- Audacious enterprise: the Einsteins and electrotechnology in late nineteenth-century Munich -- Einspänner: the social roots of Einstein's world view -- Hermann Minkowski and Einstein's special theory of relativity -- Physics in the shadow of mathematics: the Göttingen electron-theory seminar of 1905 -- Relativity in late Wilhelmian Germany: the appeal to a pre-established harmony between mathematics and physics -- Mathematics, education, and the Göttingen approach to physical reality, 1890-1914 -- Physical sense in relativity: Max Planck edits the Annalen der Physik, 1906-1918 -- Einstein's early scientific collaboration |
| Summary |
A detailed account of Einstein's childhood and formative years focuses on the intellectual climate of Germany where, before 1919, his trailblazing work on the special and general theories of relativity received widest notice. The author explores the response to the theories by pure mathematicians, who did not have to face the prospect of a fundamental revision of their basic principles, and by physicists and astronomers, who did. Of interest to physicists, academics and students interested in Einstein himself and in the wider history of science and ideas, or in the social and intellectual history of Germany |
| Analysis |
Physics Einstein, Albert - Biographies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Physicists -- Biography.
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Relativity (Physics)
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Relativity (Physics) -- History.
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Physics.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
85120280 |
| ISBN |
0852747799 |
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