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001 2002277411
003 DLC
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008 020308s2002 maua b 000 0deng d
010 $a 2002277411
020 $a0817641432 (acid-free paper)
020 $a3764341432 (Basel : acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aQC16.E5$bS69 2002
072 7 $aQC$2lcco
082 00 $a530/.092$aB$221
100 1 $aStachel, John J.,$d1928-
245 10 $aEinstein from "B" to "Z" /$cJohn Stachel.
260 $aBoston :$bBirkhäuser,$cc2002.
300 $axi, 556 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aEinstein studies ;$vv. 9
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I The Human Side1 -- Albert Einstein: The Man Beyond the Myth3 -- Albert Einstein13 -- Albert Einstein: (1879-1955)19 -- The Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth21 -- Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric: -- A Collaboration that Failed to Develop39 -- Einstein's Jewish Identity57 -- Einstein on Civil Liberty85 -- Einstein and the "Research Passion"87 -- II Editing the Einstein Papers95 -- "A Man of My Type" - Editing the Einstein Papers97 -- Introduction to the Guide to the Duplicate Einstein Archive -- and Control Index113 -- III Surveys of Einstein's Work119 -- Introduction to Einstein: The Formative Years121 -- The Other Einstein: Einstein Contra Field Theory141 -- IV Special Relativity155 -- "What Song the Syrens Sang": -- How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity?157 -- Einstein and Ether Drift Experiments171 -- Einstein and Michelson: The Context of Discovery -- and the Context of Justification177 -- Einstein on the Theory of Relativity191 -- Einstein's First Derivation of Mass-Energy Equivalence -- (with Roberto Toretti)215 -- V General Relativity223 -- Einstein's Odyssey: His Journey from Special to General Relativity. 225 -- The Genesis of General Relativity233 -- The Rigidly Rotating Disk as the "Missing Link" in the -- History of General Relativity245 -- The First Two Acts261 -- How Einstein Discovered General Relativity: -- A Historical Tale with Some Contemporary Morals293 -- Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912-1915301 -- Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute -- (with Leo Corry and Jiirgen Renn)339 -- The Origin of Gravitational Lensing: -- A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper -- (with Jiirgen Renn and Tilman Sauer)347 -- New Light on the Einstein-Hilbert Priority Question353 -- VI Quantum Theory365 -- Einstein and the Quantum: Fifty Years of Struggle367 -- Einstein and Quantum Mechanics403 -- Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis, or -- Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas -- a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier427 -- VII Einstein and Others445 -- Einstein and Newton447 -- Eddington and Einstein453 -- Einstein and Infeld: Seen through their Correspondence477 -- Lanczos's Early Contributions to Relativity and -- His Relationship with Einstein499 -- Einstein and Bose519 -- Einstein and 'Zweistein'539 -- VIII Book Reviews549 -- 'Subtle is the Lord' The Science and Life of Albert Einstein -- by Abraham Pais551 -- Albert Einstein: A Biography -- by Albert F61sing555.
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955.
650 0 $aRelativity (Physics)$xHistory.
650 0 $aQuantum theory$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002277411.html