Subtle is the lord... : the science and the life of Albert Einstein / Abraham Pais.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 1983.
Descrizione fisica:
XVI, 552 p., [8] c. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Oxford paperbacks
Contiene:
Indice: Pt. 1. 1. Purpose and plan 2. Relativity theory and quantum theory 3. Portrait of the physicist as a young man. Pt. 2. Statistical physics: 4. Entropy and probability 5. The reality of molecules. Pt. 3. Relativity, the special theory: 6. Subtle is the lord.. 7. The new kinematics 8. The edge of history. Pt. 4. Relativity, the general theory: 9. The happiest thought of my life 10. Herr. professor Einstein 11. The Prague papers 12. The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration 13. Field theories of gravitation: the first years 14. The field equations of gravitation 15. The new dynamics. Pt. 5. The later journey: 16. The suddenly famous doctor Einstein 17. Unfield field theory. Pt. 6. The quantum theory: 18. Preliminaries 19. The light quantum 20. Einstein and specific heats 21. The photon 22. Interlude: the BKS proposal 23. A loss of identity: the birth of quantum statistics 24. Einstein as a traditional figure: the birth of wave mechanics 25. Einstein's response to the new dynamics 26. Einstein's vision. Pt. 7. Journey's end: 27. The final decade 28. Epilogue. Pt. 8. Appendices: 29. Of tensors and a hearing aid and many other things: Eisntein's collaborators 30. How Einstein got the Nobel prize 31. Einstein's proposal for the Nobel Prize 32. An Einstein Chronology. Name index. Subject index
