The legacy of Albert Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics / / Editor: Spenta R. Wadia
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The legacy of Albert Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics / / Editor: Spenta R. Wadia
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientic, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280p.) |
| Disciplina: | 530.092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Physicists |
| Relativity (Physics) | |
| Quantum theory | |
| Space and time | |
| Physics - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
WadiaS. R (Spenta R.)
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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). |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The legacy of Albert Einstein |
| ISBN: | 1-281-92442-3 |
| 9786611924423 | |
| 981-277-271-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450929203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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