Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• To the Reader vii
• Contents (entries in Italics Are Almost Entirely Biographical) xi
• I Introductory 3
• 1: Purpose and Plan 5
• 2: Relativity Theory and Quantum Theory 26
• 3 - Portrait of the Physicist as a Young Man 49
• Ii Statistical Physics 53
• 4: Entropy and Probability 55
• 5: The Reality of Molecules 79
• Iii Relativity, the Special Theory 109
• 6: 'subtle is the Lord . . .' 111
• 7: The New Kinematics 138
• 8: The Edge of History 163
• Iv Relativity, the General Theory 175
• 9: 'The Happiest Thought of My Life' 177
• References 184
• 10: Herr Professor Einstein 190
• 11: The Prague Papers 192
• 12: The Einstein-Grossmann Collaboration 208
• 12: The Einstein-Grossmann Collaboration 208
• References 228
• 13: Field Theories of Gravitation 237
• 14: The Field Equations of Gravitation 239
• 15 - The New Dynamics 292
• V the Later Journey 297
• 16: 'The Suddenly Famous Doctor Einstein' 299
• 17: Unified Field Theory 325
• VI - The Quantum Theory 355
• 18 - Preliminaries 363
• 19: The Light-Quantum 364
• 20: Einstein and Specific Heats 389
• 21: The Photon 402
• 22: Interlude: The Bks Proposal 416
• 23: A Loss of Identity 423
• 24: Einstein as a Transitional Figure 435
• 25: Einstein's Response to the New Dynamics 440
• 26: Einstein's Vision 460
• Vii Journey's End 471
• 27: The Final Decade 473
• 28: Epilogue 479
• Viii Appendices 481
• 29: Of Tensors and a Hearing Aid and Many Other Things 483
• 30: How Einstein Got the Nobel Prize 502
• 31 - Einstein's Proposals for the Nobel Prize 518
• 32: An Einstein Chronology 520
• Name Index 531
• Subject Index 539

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