Einstein, History, and Other Passions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Einstein, History, and Other Passions write by Gerald Holton. This book was released on 1995-11-22. Einstein, History, and Other Passions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One can do no better than reading Gerald Holton for exploring the scientific mind. These essays are rich with a deep understanding of the scientific enterprise, the personalities of its practitioners, and a passion for communicating the history and culture of science." Alan Lightman, MIT From the opening pages this book presents an authoritative and accessible guide to the place of science in our culture today. Gerald Holton shows how the work of Einstein and his followers not only transformed science but also changed the non-scientific world, from literature and visual arts to philosophy and psychology. The recently found love letters between Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric, are used as a keyhole for studying sympathetically how the young couple tried to fashion for themselves a life based both on their tumultuous passion for each other and their love for science. This provocative volume concludes with a gallery of finely drawn profiles of notable physicists including Robert Oppenheimer, P.W. Bridgman, I.I. Rabi, Richard Feynman, and the philosopher-scientist Michael Polanyi. Library of Science Book Club Selection
Einstein
Einstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Einstein write by Barry R. Parker. This book was released on 2010-10-05. Einstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unique contribution to the Einstein literature, physicist and acclaimed science writer Parker draws on the great scientist's letters and personal papers to explore the intellectual and emotional passions that motivated both his work and his life. Illustrations throughout.
Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives write by Gerald Holton. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Einstein, History, and Other Passions
Einstein, History, and Other Passions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Einstein, History, and Other Passions write by Gerald James Holton. This book was released on 2000. Einstein, History, and Other Passions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture."--Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture."--Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe "[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science...I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century."--Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.
Einstein, History, and Other Passions
Einstein, History, and Other Passions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Einstein, History, and Other Passions write by Gerald James Holton. This book was released on 1995. Einstein, History, and Other Passions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.