Einstein : The First Hundred Years.

✍ Scribed by Goldsmith, Maurice; Mackay, Alan; Woudhuysen, James

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Einstein: The First Hundred Years presents the great contribution of Albert Einstein to the development of science. This book discusses the significant role of Einstein's existence as a scientist who turned out to be a great public figure that changed the society's consciousness of science for good.<br><br>Organized into five parts encompassing 17 chapters, this book begins with an overview of Albert Einstein's achievement as the greatest theoretical physicist of his age and he was universally recognized at 37. This text then provides Einstein's major contribution to the special and general th.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Einstein: The First Hundred Years
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
The Science Policy Foundation
Foreword
Part 1: The man
Chapter 1. Einstein
Note
Chapter 2. Personal reminiscences
Note
Chapter 3. To Albert Einstein on his 75th birthday
Chapter 4. Brief thoughts on the theory of relativity
Part 2: The impact on science
Chapter 5. Assessing Einstein's impact on today's science by citation analysis
Citation analysis
The cited works of Einstein
The impact of Einstein's works
Relativity
Quantum theory
Brownian movement
diffusion. Light scatteringConclusion
Notes
Chapter 6. The excellence of Einstein's theory of gravitation
Chapter 7. Einstein and non-locality in the quantum theory
Einstein's views on locality
Non-locality as implied by quantum theory
A suggested way of understanding non-locality in Einstein's approach
Appendix
Notes
Chapter 8. Einstein as guru? The case of Bose
Bose in Calcutta
Bose's derivation of the Planck Law
The Bose-Einstein Statistics
Bose and Einstein
Notes
Part 3: The impact on society
Chapter 9. The theory of relativity and our world view. What the theory of relativity is not --
and what it isSome negative consequences of Einstein's theory
The implications: what we know --
our picture of the world
The implications: how we know --
epistemology
The implications: whether we know --
realism
Time in relativistic physics and theology48
A musical epilogue
Notes
Chapter 10. The brain of Einstein
Note
Part 4: The impact on world affairs
Chapter 11. Einstein the pacifist warrior
Preamble
The First World War: 1914-18
The League of Nations: 1919-32
The Nazi menace: 1933-9
The Second World War: 1939-45
The nuclear age: 1945-55. NotesChapter 12. Einstein's political struggle
Notes
Chapter 13. Einstein on civil liberties
Part 5: The impact on the arts
Chapter 14. Einstein and architecture
Einstein's Tower
The Power of Number
A Fuller view
Notes
Chapter 15. Einstein and art
Introduction
Blake's repudiation of the system of perspective
Relativity and the new era in art: the role of telegraphy, photography and cinema
Cubism and Picasso
The sound of sculpture
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 16. Einstein and science fiction
God and Einstein
Note
Chapter 17. Einstein and relativity theory in modern literature. Introduction1Anecdotal reference
Scientific furniture
Einstein as a fictional character
Relativity in The Alexandria quartet
Notes
Afterword
Chapter 18. Einstein and other seekers of the larger view
Hutton, Darwin, Mendeleev, Bohr and Einstein: 'discover unity'
Fitch, Fulton, Morse and Carlson: 'create a system'
Joseph Wilson: 'find economic feasibility
The well-driller and the chemist: 'reach harmony through intuition'
Norbert Winter and the insurance company: 'build a model'
Helmholtz, Kelvin and Tukey: 'serve as science-technology generalist'

✦ Subjects

Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955