Download or read book Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein written by Robert Debever and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here in the original German and French, along with an English translation, the correspondence between Albert Einstein and Elie Cartan includes letters written between 1929 and 1932, after which time Einstein abandoned his unified field theory based on absolute parallelism. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Elie Cartan Albert Einstein Letters on Absolute Parallelism 1929 1932 written by Robert Debever and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elie Cartan Albert Einstein written by Elie Cartan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elie Cartan Albert Einstein Letters on Absolute Parallelism 1929 1932 written by Elie Cartan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Elie Cartan 1869 1951 written by M. A. Akivis and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the life and achievements of the great French mathematician, Elie Cartan. Here readers will find detailed descriptions of Cartan's discoveries in Lie groups and algebras, associative algebras, differential equations, and differential geometry, as well of later developments stemming from his ideas. There is also a biographical sketch of Cartan's life. A monumental tribute to a towering figure in the history of mathematics, this book will appeal to mathematicians and historians alike.
Download or read book THUS SPOKE EINSTEIN on LIFE and LIVING written by V. Alexander Stefan and published by Stefan University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THUS SPOKE EINSTEIN on LIFE and LIVING Wisdom of Albert Einstein in the Context Selected, Edited, and Commented by V. Alexander STEFAN Institute for Advanced Physics Studies Stefan University
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Albert Einstein In Plain and Simple English written by BookCaps Study Guides Staff and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okay, so most of us have heard of the theory of relativity; and some readers might even own a t-shirt with E=MC2 on it. But knowing the name and understanding the concepts is two different things! If you want to understand Einstein's most notable ideas, but just don't have the scientific understanding to fully grasp the concepts, then let us help. The "Plain and Simple English" series is part of BookCapsTM growing library of book and history recaps.
Download or read book An Einstein Encyclopedia written by Alice Calaprice and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Einstein This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this authoritative and accessible reference features more than one hundred entries and is divided into three parts covering the personal, scientific, and public spheres of Einstein’s life. An Einstein Encyclopedia contains entries on Einstein’s birth and death, family and romantic relationships, honors and awards, educational institutions where he studied and worked, citizenships and immigration to America, hobbies and travels, plus the people he befriended and the history of his archives and the Einstein Papers Project. Entries on Einstein’s scientific theories provide useful background and context, along with details about his assistants, collaborators, and rivals, as well as physics concepts related to his work. Coverage of Einstein’s role in public life includes entries on his Jewish identity, humanitarian and civil rights involvements, political and educational philosophies, religion, and more. Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the theory of general relativity, An Einstein Encyclopedia also includes a chronology of Einstein’s life and appendixes that provide information for further reading and research, including an annotated list of a selection of Einstein’s publications and a review of selected books about Einstein. More than 100 entries cover the rich details of Einstein’s personal, professional, and public life Authoritative entries explain Einstein’s family relationships, scientific achievements, political activities, religious views, and more More than 40 illustrations include photos of Einstein and his circle plus archival materials A chronology of Einstein’s life, appendixes, and suggestions for further reading provide essential details for further research
Download or read book VII Hotine Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy written by Nico Sneeuw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hotine-Marussi Symposium is the core meeting of a “think thank”, a group scientists in the geodetic environment working on theoretical and methodological subjects, while maintaining the foundations of geodesy to the proper level by corresponding to the strong advancements improved by technological development in the field of ICT, electronic computing, space technology, new measurement devices etc. The proceedings of the symposium cover a broad area of arguments which integrate the foundations of geodesy as a science. The common feature of the papers therefore is not on the object, but rather in the high mathematical standards with which subjects are treated.
Download or read book Albert Einstein Historical and Cultural Perspectives written by Gerald Holton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium in March 1979, this volume sets forth an articulated sequence of chapters on the impact of Einstein's work, not only in science but in humanistic studies and problems such as international security in the nuclear age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Vector written by Robyn Arianrhod and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stars of the latest book by award-winning science writer and mathematician Robyn Arianrhod are unlikely celebrities--vectors and tensors. If you took a high school physics course, the word "vector" might remind you of the mathematics needed to determine forces on an amusement park ride, say; or of cross products, a special kind of multiplication using a bespoke table and a right-hand rule. You might also remember the introductory definition of a vector as a quantity that has magnitude and (this is the key) direction. Velocity--for example, 25 miles per hour northwest--is a vector; speed, such as 25 miles per hour, is not. Put another way, a velocity vector in space contains not one number, but three-a measurement of speed along each of three dimensions. It sounds simple, in hindsight--yet, as Arianrhod shows in this intriguing story, the idea of a single symbol expressing several things at once is a sophisticated one, millennia in the making. Vectors are examples of an even more sophisticated idea, the tensor. And it's not just space that vectors and tensors can represent, but information, too. Which means that whenever you use a search engine, say, or AI bot, computer graphics, or a host of other digital applications, vectors and tensors are there somewhere in the software. As for physics, there's much more to it than velocities and simple forces! Arianrhod shows how the discovery of vectors and tensors enabled physicists and mathematicians to think brand new thoughts-such as Maxwell did when he ushered in the wireless electromagnetic age, and Einstein when he predicted the curving of four-dimensional space-time and the existence of gravitational waves. Quantum theory, too, makes fine use of these ideas. In other words, vectors and tensors have been critical not only to the way we see our universe, but also to the invention of Wi-Fi, GPS, micro-technology, and so much else that we take for granted today. In exploring the history and significance of vectors and tensors-and introducing the fascinating people who gave them to us--Arianrhod takes readers on an extraordinary, five-thousand-year journey through the human imagination. A celebration of an idea, Vector shows the genius required to imagine the world in new dimensions-and how a clever mathematical construct can direct the future of discovery"--
Download or read book Writing Small Omegas written by Alberto Cogliati and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Small Omegas: Elie Cartan's Contributions to the Theory of Continuous Groups 1894-1926 provides a general account of Lie’s theory of finite continuous groups, critically examining Cartan’s doctoral attempts to rigorously classify simple Lie algebras, including the use of many unpublished letters. It evaluates pioneering attempts to generalize Lie's classical ideas to the infinite-dimensional case in the works of Lie, Engel, Medolaghi and Vessiot. Within this context, Cartan’s groundbreaking contributions in continuous group theory, particularly in his characteristic and unique recourse to exterior differential calculus, are introduced and discussed at length. The work concludes by discussing Cartan’s contributions to the structural theory of infinite continuous groups, his method of moving frames, and the genesis of his geometrical theory of Lie groups. Discusses the origins of the theory of moving frames and the geometrical theory of Lie groups Reviews Cartan’s revolutionary contributions to Lie group theory and differential geometry Evaluates many unpublished sources that shed light on important aspects of the historical development of Lie algebras
Download or read book Subtle is the Lord written by Abraham Pais and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought.Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkablevolume, written by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of twentieth-century science.
Download or read book General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries written by Galina Weinstein and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Albert Einstein and his interactions with, and responses to, various scientists, both famous and lesser-known. It takes as its starting point that the discussions between Einstein and other scientists all represented a contribution to the edifice of general relativity and relativistic cosmology. These scientists with whom Einstein implicitly or explicitly interacted form a complicated web of collaboration, which this study explores, focusing on their implicit and explicit responses to Einstein’s work. This analysis uncovers latent undercurrents, indiscernible to other approaches to tracking the intellectual pathway of Einstein to his general theory of relativity. The interconnections and interactions presented here reveal the central figures who influenced Einstein during this intellectual period. Despite current approaches to history presupposing that the efforts of scientists such as Max Abraham and Gunnar Nordström, which differed from Einstein’s own views, be relegated to the background, this book shows that they all had an impact on the development of Einstein’s theories, stressing the limits of approaches focusing solely on Einstein. As such, General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries proves that the general theory of relativity was not developed as a single, coherent construction by an isolated, brooding individual, but, rather, that it came to fruition through Einstein’s conflicts and interactions with other scientists, and was consolidated by his creative processes during these exchanges.
Download or read book Classical and Quantum Nonlocality written by P G Bergmann and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory. These problems lie on the border between general relativity and quantum physics, including quantum gravity. Contents:Bohr's and Mach's Conceptions of Non-locality in Gravitation (H H v Borzeszkowski & H-J Treder)Non-locality Versus Locality: The Epistemological Background of the Einstein–Bohr Debate (H-H v Borzeszkowski & R Wahsner)Global Energy and Non-local Energy (J N Goldberg)Aspects of Physical Non-locality (A Komar)The EPR Argument and Quantum Non-locality (B K Datta et al.)Non-commuting Geometry and Spin Fluctuations (V de Sabbata et al.)Noncommutative Geometry for Pedestrians (J Madore)Some Topics and Trials on the Theory of Non-local Fields — Theory of Fields in Finsler Spaces and Fluctuations of Space–Time (Y Takano)Quantum Gravity Phenomenology (D V Nanopoulos)Hawking Radiation in String Theory and the String Phase of Black Holes (M R Medrano & N Sanchez)Non-locality, Entanglement and Quantum Computers (Z-L Zhang & Z-J Zhang) Readership: Cosmologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, high energy physicists and experimental physicists. Keywords:Nonlocality;Gravitation;Quantum Theory;General Relativity;Quantum Gravity
