The legacy of Albert Einstein : a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics / Editor: Spenta R. Wadia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wadia, S. R. (Spenta R.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicists--Biography.

Physicists.

Relativity (Physics).

Quantum theory.

Space and time.

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Influence.

Einstein, Albert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientic, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contains a compendium of articles covering a range of topics in physics which were begun or influenced by the works of Albert Einstein: special relativity, quantum theory, statistical physics, condensed matter physics, general relativity, geometry, cosmology and unified field theory. This book includes an essay on the societal role of Einstein.

Contents:

Einstein and the Search for Unification (D Gross); Einstein and Geometry (M Atiyah); String Theory and Einstein's Dream (A Sen); Black Hole Entropy in String Theory: A Window into the Quantum Structure of Gravity (A Dabholkar); The Winding Road to Quantum Gravity (A Ashtekar); Brownian Functionals in Physics and Computer Science (S N Majumdar); Bose-Einstein Condensation: Where Many Become One and So There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom (N Kumar); Many Electrons Strongly Avoiding Each Other: Strange Goings On (T V Ramakrishnan); Einstein and the Quantum (V Singh); Einstein's Legacy: Relativistic Cosmology (J V Narlikar); Einstein's Universe: The Challenge of Dark Energy (S Sarkar); Gravitational Radiation

In Celebration of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (B S Sathyaprakash); Albert Einstein: Radical Pacifist and Democrat (T Jayaraman).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611924423

9781281924421

1281924423

9789812772718

9812772715

OCLC:

879024847