Einstein Studies in Russia

ISBN-13: 9781461266266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 314 str.

Yuri Balashov; Vladimir Vizgin

Opis

This engaging volume offers a selection of the best contributions by Russian historians and philosophers of science to the Einstein Studies industry.

Spis treści

Preface * Viktor Frenkel, 'Einstein and Friedmann' * Gennady Gorelik, 'The Problem of Conservation Laws and the Poincaré Quasigroup in General Relativity' * Vladimir Vizgin, 'The Role Played by Mach's Ideas in the Genesis of the General Theory of Relativity' * Gennady Gorelik, 'Hermann Weyl and Large Numbers in Relativistic Cosmology' * Yuri Balashov, 'Laws of Physics and the Universe' * Vladimir Vizgin and Viktor Frenkel, 'Vsevolod Frederiks, Pioneer of Relativism and Liquid Crystal Physics' * Alexei Kojevnikov, 'Einstein's Fluctuation Formula and the Wave-Particle Duality' * Alexei Kojevnikov, 'Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics' * Boris Yavelov, 'Einstein's Zurich Colloquium' * Victor Frenkel and Boris Yavelov, 'What May Happen to a Man Who Thinks a Great Deal but Reads Very Little' * Index