Einstein: a centenary volume/ edited by A. P. French.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.Description: xx, 332 p.: ill.; 26 cmISBN:- 0674242319
- 510.92 E35
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Castorina Estantes Abertas (Open Shelves) | Livros (Books) | 510.92 E35 1979 IMPA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39063000104045 |
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 323.
Part I. Reminiscences. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 / C.P. Snow -- Excerpts from a memoir / Maurice Solovine -- Einstein's friendship with Michele Besso / P. Speziali -- My meeting with Einstein at the Solvay Conference of 1927 / Louis de Broglie -- Reminiscences of Einstein / L.L. Whyte -- Memoir / John A. Wheeler -- Anecdotes / Philipp Frank -- Memoir / Edward Teller -- Einstein / Philippe Halsman -- Reminiscence / George Gamow -- Memoir / Ernst G. Straus -- Memoir / Eugene P. Wigner -- An Einstein anecdote / John G. Kemeny -- Eistein, Newton, and success / A. Pais -- Conversations with Albert Einstein / Robert S. Shankland -- Einstein and Newton / I.B. Cohen -- A tribute / Pablo Casals -- On Albert Einstein / J.R. Oppenheimer -- Part II. Einstein and his work -- Einstein-a condensed biography -- Einstein and the birth of special relativity / Silvio Bergia -- The story of general relativity / A.P. French -- Relativity theory and gravitation / Hermann Bondi -- The problem / Eric M. Rogers -- The solution / I.B. Cohen -- Einstein and the development of quantum physics / Martin J. Klein -- #What, precisely, is "thinking"?' Einstein's answer / Gerald Holton - -
Einstein, science and culture / Boris Kuznetsov -- Einstein and world affairs / A.P. French -- Einstein and Zionism / Gerald E. Tuaber -- Einstein and education / Arturo Lorian -- Philosophical concepts of space and time / Herbert Hörz -- Einstein on postage stamps / E.J. Burge -- Approaches to the teaching of special relativity / Geoffrey Dorling -- Part III. Einstein's Letters. Einstein writes to his best friend / P. Speziali -- Letter to Maurice Solovine, 7 May 1952 -- Exchange of letters with Niels Bohr -- Letters to Max Born -- Part IV Einstein's Writings -- On the electrodynamics of moving bodies -- Geometry and experience -- The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers and the so-called Baer's Law -- Excerpts from Ideas and opinions -- Notes on the origin of the general theory of relativity -- On the method of theoretical physics -- On education -- An elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy .
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