Goldsmith / Mackay / Woudhuysen Einstein: The First Hundred Years

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-5287-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Web PDF

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. 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 theories of relativity. Other chapters consider Einstein's work on the development of quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1921. This book discusses as well Brownian movement and statistical theories by Einstein. The final chapter deals with the increasing widespread interest in Einstein's work. This book is a valuable resource for scientists, physicists, teachers, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldsmith, Maurice

Mackay, Alan

Woudhuysen, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Einstein: The First Hundred Years;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Acknowledgements;8
6;The Science Policy Foundation;10
7;Foreword;12
8;Part 1: The man;16
8.1;Chapter 1. Einstein;18
8.1.1;Note;33
8.2;Chapter 2. Personal reminiscences;34
8.2.1;Note;36
8.3;Chapter 3. To Albert Einstein on his 75th birthday;38
8.4;Chapter 4. Brief thoughts on the theory of relativity;41
9;Part 2: The impact on science;44
9.1;Chapter 5. Assessing Einstein's impact on today's science by citation analysis;46
9.1.1;Citation analysis;47
9.1.2;The cited works of Einstein;48
9.1.3;The impact of Einstein's works;48
9.1.4;Relativity;50
9.1.5;Quantum theory;51
9.1.6;Brownian movement; diffusion;52
9.1.7;Light scattering;53
9.1.8;Conclusion;53
9.1.9;Notes;54
9.2;Chapter 6. The excellence of Einstein's theory of gravitation;56
9.3;Chapter 7. Einstein and non-locality in the quantum theory;62
9.3.1;Einstein's views on locality;63
9.3.2;Non-locality as implied by quantum theory;66
9.3.3;A suggested way of understanding non-locality in Einstein's approach;69
9.3.4;Appendix;71
9.3.5;Notes;76
9.4;Chapter 8. Einstein as guru? The case of Bose;78
9.4.1;Bose in Calcutta;79
9.4.2;Bose's derivation of the Planck Law;80
9.4.3;The Bose—Einstein Statistics;81
9.4.4;Bose and Einstein;82
9.4.5;Notes;84
10;Part 3: The impact on society;86
10.1;Chapter 9. The theory of relativity and our world view;88
10.1.1;What the theory of relativity is not — and what it is;89
10.1.2;Some negative consequences of Einstein's theory;90
10.1.3;The implications: what we know — our picture of the world;93
10.1.4;The implications: how we know — epistemology;95
10.1.5;The implications: whether we know — realism;98
10.1.6;Time in relativistic physics and theology48;99
10.1.7;A musical epilogue;102
10.1.8;Notes;105
10.2;Chapter 10. The brain of Einstein;108
10.2.1;Note;110
11;Part 4: The impact on world affairs;112
11.1;Chapter 11. Einstein the pacifist warrior;114
11.1.1;Preamble;115
11.1.2;The First World War: 1914—18;116
11.1.3;The League of Nations: 1919–32;117
11.1.4;The Nazi menace: 1933–9;119
11.1.5;The Second World War: 1939—45;122
11.1.6;The nuclear age: 1945—55;125
11.1.7;Notes;131
11.2;Chapter 12. Einstein's political struggle;132
11.2.1;Notes;140
11.3;Chapter 13. Einstein on civil liberties;141
12;Part 5: The impact on the arts;144
12.1;Chapter 14. Einstein and architecture;146
12.1.1;Einstein's Tower;148
12.1.2;The Power of Number;154
12.1.3;A Fuller view;157
12.1.4;Notes;159
12.2;Chapter 15. Einstein and art;160
12.2.1;Introduction;161
12.2.2;Blake's repudiation of the system of perspective;161
12.2.3;Relativity and the new era in art: the role of telegraphy, photography and cinema;163
12.2.4;Cubism and Picasso;167
12.2.5;The sound of sculpture;170
12.2.6;Conclusion;171
12.2.7;Notes;172
12.3;Chapter 16. Einstein and science fiction;174
12.3.1;God and Einstein;175
12.3.2;Note;176
12.4;Chapter 17. Einstein and relativity theory in modern literature;178
12.4.1;Introduction1;179
12.4.2;Anecdotal reference;181
12.4.3;Scientific furniture;183
12.4.4;Einstein as a fictional character;186
12.4.5;Relativity in The Alexandria quartet;188
12.4.6;Notes;193
13;Afterword;196
13.1;Chapter 18. Einstein and other seekers of the larger view;198
13.1.1;Hutton, Darwin, Mendeleev, Bohr and Einstein: 'discover unity';199
13.1.2;Fitch, Fulton, Morse and Carlson: 'create a system';201
13.1.3;Joseph Wilson: 'find economic feasibility;202
13.1.4;The well-driller and the chemist: 'reach harmony through intuition';202
13.1.5;Norbert Winter and the insurance company: 'build a model';203
13.1.6;Helmholtz, Kelvin and Tukey: 'serve as science-technology generalist';204
13.1.7;Czech choose-as-you-go film and Bruno Ante's group: 'make decisions by interaction';206
13.1.8;Notes;208
14;Name Index;210
15;Subject Index;214