Tag: quantum-mechanics
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 4: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914
The distinctive scholarly stake of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 4: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912–1914 lies in its careful assembly of texts that document the conceptual and technical struggle by which Einstein sought to unify the relativity principle, the equality of inertial and gravitational mass, and the conservation of energy–momentum into a…
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909
The distinctive scholarly stake of this translation volume lies in its doubly mediating function: it returns Einstein’s 1900–1909 writings to the conditions of their original formulation—terminology, mathematical notations, and rhetorical textures—while synchronizing those conditions with an English idiom restrained to accuracy rather than fluency. The contribution is therefore twofold. It assembles, in strict sequence and…
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Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity
Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity secures a distinctive place in the literature because it compresses a complete conceptual itinerary—from classical kinematics to the relativistic unification of gravitation and geometry—into a set of lectures whose unity of method is continuously tested and amended across successive editions. The book’s scholarly stake is double: first, it re-derives the…
Simon Gros 