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Einstein from "B" to "Z"

The chairman of the Center for Einstein Studies at Boston University presents a unique collection of published and unpublished papers on Albert Einstein. The articles offer a coherent picture of the new view of Einstein, based on recent documentation and the studies of Einstein's formative years. 20 illus.
Print Book, English, 2002
Birkhäuser, Boston, 2002
History
XI, 556 S. Ill. 24 cm
9783764341435, 9780817641436, 3764341432, 0817641432
237532460
Introductionix
The Human Side
1(94)
Albert Einstein: The Man Beyond the Myth
3(10)
Albert Einstein
13(6)
Albert Einstein: (1879--1955)
19(2)
The Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth
21(18)
Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric: A Collaboration that Failed to Develop
39(18)
Einstein's Jewish Identity
57(28)
Einstein on Civil Liberty
85(2)
Einstein and the ``Research Passion''
87(8)
Editing the Einstein Papers
95(24)
``A Man of My Type'' --- Editing the Einstein Papers
97(16)
Introduction to the Guide to the Duplicate Einstein Archive and Control Index
113(6)
Surveys of Einstein's Work
119(36)
Introduction to Einstein: The Formative Years
121(20)
The Other Einstein: Einstein Contra Field Theory
141(14)
Special Relativity
155(68)
``What Song the Syrens Sang'': How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity?
157(14)
Einstein and Ether Drift Experiments
171(6)
Einstein and Michelson: The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification
177(14)
Einstein on the Theory of Relativity
191(24)
Einstein's First Derivation of Mass--Energy Equivalence
215(8)
Roberto Toretti
General Relativity
223(142)
Einstein's Odyssey: His Journey from Special to General Relativity
225(8)
The Genesis of General Relativity
233(12)
The Rigidly Rotating Disk as the ``Missing Link'' in the History of General Relativity
245(16)
The First Two Acts
261(32)
How Einstein Discovered General Relativity: A Historical Tale with Some Contemporary Morals
293(8)
Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912--1915
301(38)
Belated Decision in the Hilbert--Einstein Priority Dispute
339(8)
Leo Corry
Jurgen Renn
The Origin of Gravitational Lensing: A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper (with Jurgen Renn and Tilman Sauer)
347(6)
New Light on the Einstein--Hilbert Priority Question
353(12)
Quantum Theory
365(80)
Einstein and the Quantum: Fifty Years of Struggle
367(36)
Einstein and Quantum Mechanics
403(24)
Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis, or Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier
427(18)
Einstein and Others
445(104)
Einstein and Newton
447(6)
Eddington and Einstein
453(24)
Einstein and Infeld: Seen through their Correspondence
477(22)
Lanczos's Early Contributions to Relativity and His Relationship with Einstein
499(20)
Einstein and Bose
519(20)
Einstein and `Zweistein'
539(10)
Book Reviews
549(2)
`Subtle is the Lord' ... The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
551(4)
Abraham Pais
Albert Einstein: A Biography
555
Albert Folsing
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