| Description |
xviii, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-340) and index. |
| Contents |
Who was Einstein? Why is he still so alive? / Gerald Holton -- A short history of Einstein's paradise beyond the personal / Lorraine Daston -- Einstein's Jewish identity / Hanoch Gutfreund -- Einstein and God / Yehuda Elkana -- Einstein's unintended legacy : the critique of common-sense realism and post-modern politics / Yaron Ezrahi -- Subversive Einstein / Susan Neiman -- Einstein and nuclear weapons / Silvan S. Schweber -- EInstein and 20th-century art : a romance of many dimensions / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Rendering time / Caroline A. Jones -- Into the bleed : Einstein and 21st-century art / Matthew Ritchie -- Einstein and music / Leon Botstein -- Seeing the unseen / E.L. Doctorow -- The assassin of relativity / Peter L. Galison -- Space, time, and geometry : Einstein and logical empiricism / Michael L. Friedman -- Einstein as a student / Dudley Herschbach -- Learning from Einstein : innovation in science / Jürgen Renn -- Einstein and [h with crossbar, lowercase] : advances in quantum mechanics / Jürg Fröhlich -- Einstein's unknown contribution to quantum theory / A. Douglas Stone -- Einstein and the quest for a unified theory / David Gross -- Energy in Einstein's universe / Lisa Randall. |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Influence.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. |
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Physicists.
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Physicists. |
| Added Author |
Galison, Peter, 1955-
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Holton, Gerald James.
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Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)
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| Added Title |
Einstein for the twenty-first century |
| ISBN |
9780691135205 alkaline paper |
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0691135207 alkaline paper |
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