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The legacy of Albert Einstein a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics
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Contains a compendium of articles covering a range of topics in physics which were begun or influenced by the works of Albert Einstein: special relativity, quantum theory, statistical physics, cond...
Contains a compendium of articles covering a range of topics in physics which were begun or influenced by the works of Albert Einstein: special relativity, quantum theory, statistical physics, condensed matter physics, general relativity, geometry, cosmology and unified field theory. This book includes an essay on the societal role of Einstein.
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- Creator
- Editor: Spenta R. Wadia
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientic, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (280p.)
- ISBNs
- 9812772715, 9789812700490, 9812704809, 9789812704801, 1281924423, 9786611924423, 9812700498
- OCLC
- ocm85442907, ocn879024847
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Einstein and the Search for Unification (D Gross); Einstein and Geometry (M Atiyah); String Theory and Einstein's Dream (A Sen); Black Hole Entropy in String Theory: A Window into the Quantum Structure of Gravity (A Dabholkar); The Winding Road to Quantum Gravity (A Ashtekar); Brownian Functionals in Physics and Computer Science (S N Majumdar); Bose-Einstein Condensation: Where Many Become One and So There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom (N Kumar); Many Electrons Strongly Avoiding Each Other: Strange Goings On (T V Ramakrishnan); Einstein and the Quantum (V Singh); Einstein's Legacy: Relativistic Cosmology (J V Narlikar); Einstein's Universe: The Challenge of Dark Energy (S Sarkar); Gravitational Radiation -- In Celebration of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (B S Sathyaprakash); Albert Einstein: Radical Pacifist and Democrat (T Jayaraman)