ISBN: 9780691085265

This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein contains the scientific work Einstein published during the first decade of his career, and includes some of the most significant ach… Plus…

This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein contains the scientific work Einstein published during the first decade of his career, and includes some of the most significant achievements of twentieth-century physics. The first paper was written in 1900 by the twenty-one-year-old Einstein, newly graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School, or ETH, in Zurich and still searching in vain for a job. The last paper in this volume is the text of an invited lecture given in 1909 to a major scientific meeting by Einstein after he was appointed to his first academic post at the University of Zurich. He had already been recognized as an important theoretical physicist on the basis of the work reprinted here, particularly the three masterpieces that appeared in quick succession during 1905, Einstein's year of miracles. In one of these papers Einstein showed how one could finally confirm the ancient view that matter is composed of discrete atoms, and even measure the numbers and masses of these atoms. In a second paper, which even he referred to as very revolutionary, he argued that the observed properties of thermal radiation suggest that it consists not of waves, but rather of localized particles of energy which he called energy quanta. The third and most famous paper set forth the special theory of relativity, solving some long-standing difficulties, but requiring a significant change in our understanding of those basic concepts, space and time. New Textbooks>Hardcover>Biography>Science Biog,Memoir>Science Biog,Memoir, Princeton University Press Core >2 >T<

1992, ISBN: 9780691085265

Princeton University Press, Hardcover, 692 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780691085265, 1.59 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4347924, Literature & Drama… Plus…

Princeton University Press, Hardcover, 692 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780691085265, 1.59 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4347924, Literature & Drama, Arts & Humanities, Undergraduate & Postgraduate, Special Features, Books, Books Global Store, Foreign Language Books, 1901 Onwards, Historical, Biography, Subjects, Europe, Countries & Regions, Science, Professionals & Academics, History of Science, History & Philosophy, Science, Nature & Maths, Physics, Popular Science, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Press & Journalism, Media & Communication Industries, Communication Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Princeton University Press, 1992<

ISBN: 9780691085265

Princeton University Press, 1990-02-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!, Princeton University Press, 1990-02-01, 6

ISBN: 9780691085265

Princeton Univ Pr, 1989. Hardcover. New. 696 pages. 10.50x8.25x1.50 inches., Princeton Univ Pr, 1989, 6

1990, ISBN: 9780691085265

The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Princeton University Press], Princeton University Press, 1990