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Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781453204641

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Letters on Wave Mechanics by Albert Einstein Pdf

A lively collection of Einstein’s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters on Wave Mechanics, the correspondence between H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein. These remarkable letters illuminate not only the basis of Schrödinger’s work in wave mechanics, but also how great scientific minds debated and challenged the ever-changing theories of the day and ultimately embraced an elegant solution to the riddles of quantum theory. Their collected correspondence offers insight into both the personalities and professional aspirations that played a part in this theoretical breakthrough. This authorized ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Author : Albert Einstein,K. Przibram,Martin J. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480479888

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Letters on Wave Mechanics by Albert Einstein,K. Przibram,Martin J. Klein Pdf

A lively collection of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics with Schrödinger, Planck, and Lorentz Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters on Wave Mechanics, the correspondence between Erwin Schrödinger and Max Planck, H.A. Lorentz, and Albert Einstein. These remarkable letters illuminate not only the basis of Schrödinger's work in wave mechanics, but also how great scientific minds debated and challenged the ever-changing theories of the day and ultimately embraced an elegant solution to the riddles of quantum theory. Their collected correspondence offers insight into both the personalities and professional aspirations that played a part in this theoretical breakthrough. This authorized Philosophical Library ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Wave mechanics
ISBN : MINN:31951D00573757E

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Letters on Wave Mechanics: Schrödinger, Planck, Einstein, Lorentz by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781504058674

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The Albert Einstein Collection Volume Two by Albert Einstein Pdf

From revealing, personal letters to brilliant essays on the nature of science, these three volumes demonstrate the breadth of Einstein’s thought. The man who became famous for conceiving of the equation E=mc2 kept his mind sharp through stimulating correspondence and applied his intellectual acuity to a number of important scientific issues. The second volume of the Albert Einstein Collection offers a fascinating window into how he developed his ideas. Essays in Science: In these sixteen essays, written at the height of his intellectual powers, Einstein sets out his views on scientific knowledge, its relationship to human experience, and the underlying principles of any scientific pursuit. He discusses his own work in theoretical physics and its basis in field theory, as well as the many achievements of other scientific thinkers—including Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and others. Letters to Solovine: This collection of personal letters from Einstein to his longtime friend and translator Maurice Solovine offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of his thought, as well as a revealing portrait of the man himself. Spanning Einstein’s career and ranging from philosophical discussion to personal gossip, these letters are presented in English translation alongside the German text, with facsimiles of the original letters also included. Letters on Wave Mechanics: In this stirring collection of correspondence, four of the twentieth century’s greatest minds—H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein—discuss, debate, and refine Schrödinger’s then-nascent theory of wave mechanics. As the physicist Karl Przibram states in his foreword to this edition, “little needs to be added to the letters; they speak for themselves. Apart from their essential content, they reveal something of the personalities of the four men of genius.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Przibram, Karl
ISBN : OCLC:1027890847

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Letters on Wave Mechanics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jagdish Mehra,Helmut Rechenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0387951806

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The Historical Development of Quantum Theory by Jagdish Mehra,Helmut Rechenberg Pdf

Author : Johann Götschl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401124287

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Erwin Schrödinger’s World View by Johann Götschl Pdf

Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radiacally changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, and epistemology. This book explores the lesser-known aspects of Schrödinger's thought, revealing the physicist as a philosopher and polymath whose highly original ideas anticipated the current merging of the natural and the social sciences and the humanities. Thirteen renowned scientists and philosophers have contributed to the volume. Part I reveals the philosophical importance of Schrödinger's work as a physicist. Part II examines his theory of life and of the self-organization of matter. Part III shows how Schrödinger's ideas have influenced contemporary philosophy of nature and our modern view of the world, drawing a fascinating picture of the ongoing synthesis of nature and culture: one of the most interesting developments of modern thought. The volume also contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Schrödinger's scientific work, making it at the same time a book of acute contemporary relevance and a major work of reference.

Author : Stephen G. Brush,Ariel Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199978151

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Making 20th Century Science by Stephen G. Brush,Ariel Segal Pdf

Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory that leads to several successful predictions is more likely to be accepted than one that only explains what is already known but not understood. This process is widely treated as the conventional method of achieving scientific progress, and was used throughout the twentieth century as the standard route to discovery and experimentation. But does science really work this way? In Making 20th Century Science, Stephen G. Brush discusses this question, as it relates to the development of science throughout the last century. Answering this question requires both a philosophically and historically scientific approach, and Brush blends the two in order to take a close look at how scientific methodology has developed. Several cases from the history of modern physical and biological science are examined, including Mendeleev's Periodic Law, Kekule's structure for benzene, the light-quantum hypothesis, quantum mechanics, chromosome theory, and natural selection. In general it is found that theories are accepted for a combination of successful predictions and better explanations of old facts. Making 20th Century Science is a large-scale historical look at the implementation of the scientific method, and how scientific theories come to be accepted.

Author : Jagdish Mehra
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814492850

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Golden Age Of Theoretical Physics, The (Boxed Set Of 2 Vols) by Jagdish Mehra Pdf

The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics brings together 37 selected essays. Many of these essays were first presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA, and then published as reports or articles. Their enlarged, final versions were published in the joint work of Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, while the other essays were published as articles in scientific journals or in edited books. Here they are published together as a tribute to the Mehra-Rechenberg collaboration sustained for several decades, and cover various aspects of quantum theory, the special and general theories of relativity, the foundations of statistical mechanics, and some of their fundamental applications. Two essays, ‘Albert Einstein's “First” Paper’ (Essay 1) and ‘The Dream of Leonardo da Vinci’ (Essay 37), lie outside the major themes treated in this book, but are included here because of their historical interest. The origin of each essay is explained in a footnote.This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the twentieth century by some of the greatest pioneers and architects of modern physics. It is a vital source of information about what can veritably be described as ‘the golden age of theoretical physics’.

Author : Dipankar Home,Andrew Whitaker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387715209

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Einstein’s Struggles with Quantum Theory by Dipankar Home,Andrew Whitaker Pdf

This book presents an account of all aspects of Einstein’s achievements in quantum theory, his own views, and the progress his work has stimulated since his death. While some chapters use mathematics at an undergraduate physics level, a path is provided for the reader more concerned with ideas than equations, and the book will benefit to anybody interested in Einstein and his approach to the quantum.

Author : Robert G. Colodny
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822976394

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From Quarks to Quasars by Robert G. Colodny Pdf

In the history of science, only three hundred years separate the discoveries of Galileo and Albert Einstein. Recent science has brought us relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and elementary particle physics-in a radical and mercurial departure from earlier developments. In this collection of essays, four philosophers and one physicist consider the interactions of mathematics and physics with logic and philosophy in the rapidly changing environment of modern science.

Author : Paul Forman,Cathryn Carson,A. B. Kozhevnikov
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814293112

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Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics by Paul Forman,Cathryn Carson,A. B. Kozhevnikov Pdf

This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of physics in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis has become famous as the first argument in favor of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular for its demonstration of the historical connection between the culture of Weimar Germany — known for its irrationality and antiscientism — and the emerging concept of quantum acausality. At the 2007 international conference in Vancouver, Canada, leading historians of physics discussed the implications of the Forman thesis in the historiography of modern science. Their papers collected in this volume represent a cutting-edge research on the history of quantum revolution.

Author : John Stachel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0817641432

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Einstein from 'B' to 'Z' by John Stachel Pdf

John Stachel, the author of this collection of 37 published and unpublished articles on Albert Einstein, has written about Einstein and his work for over 40 years. Trained as a theoretical physicist specializing in the theory of relativity, he was chosen as the founding editor of The Collected papers of Albert Einstein 25 years ago, and is currently Director of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies. Based on a detailed study of documentary evidence, much of which was newly discovered in the course of his work, Stachel debunks many of the old (and some new) myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. Throughout the volume, a new, more human picture of Einstein is offered to replace the plaster saint of popular legend. In particular, a youthful Einstein emerges from the obscurity that previously shrouded his early years, and much new light is shed on the origins of the special and general theories of relativity. Also discussed in some detail are Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity. The essays are grouped thematically into the following areas: * The Human Side * Editing the Einstein Papers * Surveys of Einstein's Work * Special Relativity * General Relativity * Quantum Theory * Einstein and Other Scientists * Book Reviews Because the essays are independent of one another, readers will be able to dip into this collection to satisfy varying interests. It will be of particular interest to historians of 20th century science, working physicists, and students, as well as to the many members of the general reading public who continue to be fascinated by aspects of Einstein's life and work.

Author : Dillard W. Faries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781532614224

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Amazing Grace of Quantum Physics by Dillard W. Faries Pdf

Science and faith have had a long intertwined history. The relationship has run the gamut from a total disconnect to an adversarial battleground where proponents of each claim total victory. However, if God created the physical world and remains active in the physical world, we cannot ignore the interaction nor can we assume or expect a world of conflict. While nineteenth-century physics brought classical physics--which quite reasonably divorced God and nature--to a culmination, twentieth-century physics, especially quantum physics, has opened a new realm of possible interactions. Even though one can reasonably say that no one understands quantum physics, the fruits of the discipline overflow the cornucopia. People of faith can share the feast; and people of science are welcome at the table of faith.

Author : Jean Bricmont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319258898

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Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics by Jean Bricmont Pdf

This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at it, or whether quantum systems need an observer to acquire definite properties. The author’s inimitable and even humorous style makes the book a pleasure to read while bringing a new clarity to many of the longstanding puzzles of quantum physics.