Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
- Frontispiece
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Einstein’s Copernican Revolution
- 2 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies That Led Him to It
- 3 Einstein on Statistical Physics
- 4 The Quantum Enigma
- 5 The Experimental Challenge of Light Quanta
- 6 “No Success Like Failure ...”
- 7 Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology
- 8 Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Theoretician’s Regress
- 9 Einstein’s Unified Field Theory Program
- 10 Einstein’s Realism and His Critique of Quantum Mechanics
- 11 Einstein and the Development of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
- 12 “A Believing Rationalist”
- 13 Space, Time, and Geometry
- 14 Einstein’s Politics
- Appendix Special Relativity
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
- The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
- Frontispiece
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Einstein’s Copernican Revolution
- 2 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies That Led Him to It
- 3 Einstein on Statistical Physics
- 4 The Quantum Enigma
- 5 The Experimental Challenge of Light Quanta
- 6 “No Success Like Failure ...”
- 7 Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology
- 8 Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Theoretician’s Regress
- 9 Einstein’s Unified Field Theory Program
- 10 Einstein’s Realism and His Critique of Quantum Mechanics
- 11 Einstein and the Development of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
- 12 “A Believing Rationalist”
- 13 Space, Time, and Geometry
- 14 Einstein’s Politics
- Appendix Special Relativity
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Einstein , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014