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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1 : The Early Yea
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- Book Title
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1 : The Early Yea
- ISBN
- 9780691084077
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Science
- Publication Name
- Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1 : the Early Years, 1879-1902
- Item Length
- 10.2 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- History, Physics / General, Science & Technology
- Publication Year
- 1987
- Series
- Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- Ger,Fre,Eng
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Item Width
- 7.8 in
- Item Weight
- 51.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 522 Pages
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Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with other previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth. The documents in the volume also foreshadow the emergence of his extraordinary creative power. In them is manifested his intense commitment to scientific work and his interest in certain themes that proved to be central to his thinking during the next decade. We can follow, for example, the beginnings of his preoccupation with the electrodynamics of moving bodies that was to lead to the development of this special theory of relativity. For the first time it can be seen how closely he followed such contemporary developments in physics as Planck's work on radiation theory and Drude's work on the electron theory of metals. In addition to all of Einstein's known correspondence and other writings from this period, the volume includes the relevant portions of all third-party letters and other contemporary documents that provide additional information about his secondary schooling at the Aargau Cantonal School; his four years at the Swiss Federal Plytechnical School, or the ETH; and his search for a job after graduation. Included in the volume are those sections of an unpublished biography by Einstein's sister, Maja Winteler-Einstein, which deal with his early years; his extensive notes on a physics course he took at the ETH; and previously unpublished photographs of the young Einstein and his teachers and friends. Documents in Volume 1 portray Einstein's experiences during the two stressful years after his graduation from the ETH in Zurich. Denied a position as an Assistant at the ETH, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence while he looked for a post at other universities; then he attempted to find a secondary-school post, and finally sought a nonacademic job. Tension with his parents over his plans to marry Mileva Maric is evident throughout this period. With the help of a friend, he finally found work at the Swiss Patent Office, the haven where he would spend the next seven years. Freed from his financial worries, he entered on one of the most productive periods of his life, as the next volume, Writings (1901-1910), will document.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691084076
ISBN-13
9780691084077
eBay Product ID (ePID)
833825
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1 : the Early Years, 1879-1902
Format
Hardcover
Language
Ger,Fre,Eng
Subject
History, Physics / General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1987
Series
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Science
Number of Pages
522 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
7.8 in
Item Weight
51.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
86-043132
Intended Audience
College Audience
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Qc16.E5a2 1987
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Reviews
"The volume is attractive, the editing perceptive and informative without being intrusive; the translation, an entirely appropriate and insightful compromise between the literary and the literal."-- International Journal of Theoretical Physics, "The volume is attractive, the editing perceptive and informative without being intrusive; the translation, an entirely appropriate and insightful compromise between the literary and the literal." -- International Journal of Theoretical Physics, The volume is attractive, the editing perceptive and informative without being intrusive; the translation, an entirely appropriate and insightful compromise between the literary and the literal., The volume is attractive, the editing perceptive and informative without being intrusive; the translation, an entirely appropriate and insightful compromise between the literary and the literal. -- International Journal of Theoretical Physics
Table of Content
Publisher's Foreword xi List of Texts xv List of Illustrations xxi INTRODUCTORY MARTERIAL General Information xxvii Editorial Method xxx Introduction to Volume 1 xxxv Acknowledgments xlii List of Location Symbols xlv List of Descriptive Symbols xlvii "Albert Einstein--Betrag fÜr sein Lebensbid" (Excerpt) by Maja Winteler-Einstein xlviii Map 2 LIST OF TEXTS 1. Birth Certificate, 15 March 1879 1 2. Pauline Einstein to Fanny Einstein, 1 August 1886 3 3. Comment on the Proof of a Theorem, 1891-1895 3 4. Two Philosophical Comments, 1891-1895 4 Editorial Note: Einstein's First Scientific Essay5 5. "On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a 6 Magnetic Field," Summer? 1895 6. To Caesar Koch, Summer 1895 9 Editorial Note: ETH Entrance Examination and Aargau Kantonsschule10 7. Albin Herzog to Gustav Maier, 25 September 1895 12 8. Entrance Report of the Gewerbeschule Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 26 October 1895 13 9. Gustav Mier to Jost Winteler 26 October 1895 14 10. Aargau Kantonsschule Record, 26 October 1895 3 October 1896 15 11. Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 29 October 1895 17 12. Minutes of the Teachers' Conference, Aargau Kantonsschule, 8 November 1895 18 13. Jost Winteler to Gustav Maier, 21 December 1895 18 14. Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 30 December 1895 19 15. Pauline Einstein to the Winteler Family, 30 December 1895 19 16. Release from WÜrttemberg Citizenship, 28 January 1896 20 17. Inspector's Report on a Music Examination, Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 31 March 1896 21 18. To Marie Winteler, with a Postscript by Pauline Einstein, 21 April 1896 21 19. Final Grades, Aargau Kantonsschule, 5 September 1896 23 Editorial Note: Matura Examinations at the Gewerbeschule, Aargau Kantonsschule23 20. To the Department of Education, Canton of Aargau, 7 September 1896 25 21.MaturaExamination (A) German: "Synopsis of Goethe's GÖtz von Berlichingen," 18 September 1896 25 22.MaturaExamination (B) French: "My Future Plans," 18 September 1896 28 23.MaturaExamination (C) Geometry, 19 September 1896 29 24.MaturaExamination (D) Physics: "Tangent Galvanometer and Galvanometer," 19 September 1896 32 25.MaturaExamination (E) Natural History: "Evidence of the Earlier Glaciation of Our Country," 21 September 1896 35 26.MaturaExamination (F) Algebra, 21 September 1896 39 27.MaturaExamination (G) Chemistry, 21 September 1896 41 Editorial Note: The Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (ETH)43 28. ETH Record and Grade Transcript, 5-10 October 1896 2 August 1900 45 29. From Marie Winteler, 4-25 November 1896 50 30. From Marie Winteler, 30 November 1896 52 31. Pauline Einstein to Marie Winteler, 13 December 1896 53 32. Pauline Einstein to Marie Winteler, 24 March 1897 54 33. Statement of a Fine, 23-28 April 1897 54 34. To Pauline Winteler, May? 1897 55 35. To Pauline Winteler, 7 June 1897 57 36. From Mileva Maric, after 20 October 1897 58 Editorial Note: Einstein as a Student of Physics, and His Notes on H. F. Weber's Course60 37. H. F. Weber's Lectures on Physics, ca. December 1897-ca. June 1898 63 38. To Maja Einstein, 1898 211 To Mileva Maric, 2 January 1898 [envelope only] 211 39. To Mileva Maric, 16 February 1898 211 40. To Mileva Maric, 16 April-8 November 1898 213 41. To Mileva Maric, after 16 April 1898 213 42. JÉrocircum;me Franel to Hermann Bleuler, 21 October 1898 214 43. To Mileva Maric, after 28 November 1898 215 44. To Maja Einstein, after February 1899 215 45. To Mileva Maric, 13 or 20 March 1899 215 46. To Rosa Winteler, 29 April 1899 217 47. To Rosa Winteler, 18 May 1899 218 48. To Julia Niggli, 28 July 1899 218 49. Verse in the Album of Anna Schmid, August 1899 220 50. To Mileva Maric, early August 1899 220 51. To
Copyright Date
1987
Dewey Decimal
530
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
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