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Einstein on Einstein : autobiographical and scientific reflections / Jürgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Renn, Jürgen, Author.
- Gutfreund, Hanoch, 1935- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Annus Mirabilis.
- Brownian motion.
- Charles Darwin.
- E=MC2;Paul Arthur Schilpp.
- Einstein’s brain.
- Galileo Galilei.
- Ideas and Opinions.
- Isaac Newton.
- Marie Curie.
- Max Planck.
- Neils Bohr.
- Nikola Tesla.
- Out of My Later Years.
- Sir Arthur Eddington.
- Stephen Hawking.
- The Meaning of Relativity.
- The World as I See It.
- Thomas Edison.
- Walter Isaacson.
- black holes.
- gravitational lensing.
- gravitational waves.
- photoelectric effect.
- quantum theory.
- space-time.
- special relativity.
- speed of light.
- theory of gravity.
- theory of relativity.
- unified field theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Annus Mirabilis.
- Brownian motion.
- Charles Darwin.
- E=MC2;Paul Arthur Schilpp.
- Einstein’s brain.
- Galileo Galilei.
- Ideas and Opinions.
- Isaac Newton.
- Marie Curie.
- Max Planck.
- Neils Bohr.
- Nikola Tesla.
- Out of My Later Years.
- Sir Arthur Eddington.
- Stephen Hawking.
- The Meaning of Relativity.
- The World as I See It.
- Thomas Edison.
- Walter Isaacson.
- black holes.
- gravitational lensing.
- gravitational waves.
- photoelectric effect.
- quantum theory.
- space-time.
- special relativity.
- speed of light.
- theory of gravity.
- theory of relativity.
- unified field theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers. The resulting book was his uniquely personal Autobiographical Notes, a classic work in the history of science that explains the development of his ideas with unmatched warmth and clarity. Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund introduce Einstein's scientific reflections to today's readers, tracing his intellectual formation from childhood to old age and offering a compelling portrait of the making of a philosopher-scientist.Einstein on Einstein features the full English text of Autobiographical Notes along with incisive essays that place Einstein's reflections in the context of the different stages of his scientific life. Renn and Gutfreund draw on Einstein's writings, personal correspondence, and critical writings by Einstein's contemporaries to provide new perspectives on his greatest discoveries. Also included are Einstein's responses to his critics, which shed additional light on his scientific and philosophical worldview. Renn and Gutfreund "e extensively from Einstein's initial, unpublished attempts to formulate his response, and also look at another brief autobiographical text by Einstein, written a few weeks before his death, which is published here for the first time in English.Complete with evocative drawings by artist Laurent Taudin, Einstein on Einstein illuminates the iconic physicist's journey to general relativity while situating his revolutionary ideas alongside other astonishing scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. The Genesis and Scope of the Autobiographical Notes
- 2. Schilpp’s Enterprise: The Library of Living Philosophers
- 3. Historical Background: The Year 1946
- 4. Einstein’s Autobiographical Notes and Planck’s Scientific Autobiography
- 1. The Quest for a Unified Worldview
- 2. “Striving for a Conceptual Grasp of Things”
- 3. “My Epistemological Credo”
- 4. The Mechanical Worldview and Its Demise: “And Now to the Critique of Mechanics as the Basis of Physics”
- 5. The Rise of the Electromagnetic Worldview and the Field Concept: “The Transition from Action at a Distance to Fields”
- 6. Planck’s Black-Body Radiation Formula: “But the Matter Has a Serious Drawback”
- 7. Einstein’s Statistical Mechanics: Closing the “Gap”
- 8. Brownian Motion: “The Existence of Atoms of Definite Finite Size”
- 9. A Reflecting Mirror in Radiation Field: “The Mirror Must Experience Certain Random Fluctuations”
- 10. The Special Theory of Relativity: “There Is No Such Thing as Simultaneity of Distant Events”
- 11. The General Theory of Relativity: “Why Were Another Seven Years Required?”
- 12. Quantum Mechanics: “This Theory Offers No Useful Point of Departure for Future Development”
- 13. The Unified Field Theory: “Finding the Field Equations for the Total Field”
- 1. The Physicists and Philosophers Who Contributed to the Volume
- 2. Einstein’s “Reply to Criticisms”
- 1. Introductory Remarks
- 2. “Autobiographical Sketch”—An English Translation
- V. Concluding Remarks: Einstein the Philosopher-Scientist
- VI. Reprint of the English Translation of Autobiographical Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780691200118
- 0691200114
- OCLC:
- 1153478778
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