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This volume is a collection of original essay, most never published, on Einstein's formative years. Topics are extensive, from Einstein's first wife, to his early readings, university education, and influences that shaped his thinking on statistical mechanics and relativity theory.

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Author:   Don Howard ,  John Stachel
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Volume:   v. 8
ISBN:  

9783764340308

ISBN 10:   3764340304
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   October 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780817640309
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to Einstein - the Formative Years , John Stachel; the mysteries and wonders of natural science - Aaron Bernstein's Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher and the adolescent Eistein, Frederick Gregory; the young Einstein's physics education - H.F. Weber, Hermann von Helmholtz and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Institute, David Cahan; Kant's impact on Einstein's thought, Mara Beller; Einstein's controversy with Drude and the origin of statistical mechanics - an new glimpse from the Love Letters , Juergen Renn; physical approximations and stochastic processes in Einstein's 1905 paper on Brownian motion, Sahotra Sarkar; the construction of the special theory - some queries and considerations, Robert Rynasiewicz; Einstein's light quantum hypothesis - or why didn't Einstein propose a quantum gas a decade-and-a-half earlier?, John Stachel.

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