The Genesis of General Relativity, 4 Vols.
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This work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein's 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today's major historians of science.
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This work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein's 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today's major historians of science.
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This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein's 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today's major historians of science.
Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.
This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It contains the direct facsimile, transcript and explanation of and comments on the Einstein Zurich Notebook as written in 1912. The research by Einstein herein forms a pivotal part of his creation of the theory of General Relativity (1915) from Special Relativity (1905) and Newton's law of gravitation. Additional sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development sources are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Genesis of General Relativity, 4 Vols. “
- Vol. 1: Einstein's Zurich Notebook, Introduction and Source- Vol. 2: Einstein's Zurich Notebook, Commentary and Essays
- Vol. 3: Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics, Between Mechanices, Field Theory and Astronomy
- Vol. 4: Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics, The Promise of Mathematics.
Autoren-Porträt von M. Janssen
Professor Jürgen Renn ist "Einstein-Experte" und Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten zählen die Entstehung der Mechanik in der Antike, Wechselwirkungen von praktischem und theoretischem Wissen seit der Renaissance, der Übergang von der klassischen zur modernen Physik, die Entstehung der Relativitätstheorie und der Einsatz neuer Medien in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Professor Renn war Koordinator der Ausstellung 'Albert Einstein - Ingenieur des Universums', die von Mai bis September 2005 in Berlin stattfand.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: M. Janssen
- 2007, 2099 Seiten, Masse: 16,5 x 24,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Renn, Jürgen
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 1402039999
- ISBN-13: 9781402039997
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.02.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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From the reviews: These volumes prove that to Wittgensteina (TM)s saying that "Genius is what makes us forget skill" ought to be added the statement "when viewing the finished product." Genius is also the ability to master the available resources and techniques and to synthesize them in a manner that overwhelms. The volumes are the product of a remarkable cooperative effort on the part of five of the most distinguished Einstein scholars. They deciphered and analyzed the extended research notes that Einstein made from 1912 to 1915 in his struggle to arrive at the final formulation of his theory of general relativity. In doing so they have given us deep new insights on Einsteina (TM)s creativity and on creativity in general, on context, on the role of past resources and expertise, and on the function of analogies. Their researches, observations and commentary have also made us think anew of the concept of a scientific revolution. Their splendid work is surely one of the most important and seminal scholarly accomplishments of recent times.
S.S. Schweber, Brandeis University, USA
"The publication of The Genesis of General Relativity marks the outcome of 10 years of research into the origins of Einsteina (TM)s General Relativity Theory a ] . It provides a comprehensive study and in-depth analysis of how the work of Albert Einstein and his contemporaries changes our understanding of space, time and gravitation. a ] At the center of this reconstruction, is a commentary of Einsteina (TM)s unpublished research notes, so-called a ~Zurich Notebooka (TM), presented in their entirety for the first time." (Renn JA1/4rgen, www.physorg.com, February, 2007)
http: //arxiv1.library.cornell.edu/abs/0807.3706v1
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