Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879-1909

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Don Howard, John J. Stachel
Springer Science & Business Media, 2000 - 258
This volume brings together in one place some of the best, recent scholarship on the earliest years of Albert Einstein's life and work, providing a comprehensive overview of what might be termed Einstein's formative period. The book is filled with interesting new documentation, including personal letters and unpublished manuscripts, that has recently come to light.
 

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Introduction to Einstein The Formative Years
1
The Mysteries and Wonders of Natural Science Aaron Bernsteins Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbücher and the Adolescent Einstein
23
The Young Einsteins Physics Education HF Weber Hermann von Helmholtz and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Institute
43
Kants Impact on Einsteins Thought
55
Einsteins Controversy with Drude and the Origin of Statistical Mechanics A New Glimpse from the Love Letters
79
The Construction of the Special Theory Some Queries and Considerations
131
Physical Approximations and Stochastic Processes in Einsteins 1905 Paper on Brownian Motion
175
Einsteins LightQuantum Hypothesis or Why Didnt Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas a DecadeandaHalf Earlier?
203
Index
223
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