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Quantum physics is believed to be the fundamental theory underlying our understanding of the physical universe. However, it is based on concepts and principles that have always been difficult to understand and controversial in their interpretation.…

Het oorspronkelijk Franse boek werd bij de uitgever afgeleverd op dag 32 van het jonge ruimtevaart tijdperk (de dag na de lancering van Spoetnik II).  Na de schok bij de lancering van Spoetnik I, stelde het ruime publiek zich veek vragen.  Dit boek…

Have you every wanted to build a sundial or to understand how one works? Then you have probably been frustrated as you search vainly for help. Most books on the subject are either rare out-of-print works published centuries ago and available only in…

The most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity,…

Ces notes ont été rédigées par Einstein, à l'âge de 67 ans, pour le volume VII de Library of living philosophers, intitulé Albert Einstein : philosopher-scientist (1949). Elles ont été publiées en volume séparé pour la première fois en mars 1979, aux…

In 1905, a German technical journal, Annalen der Physik, published a remarkable paper by a young clerk in the patent office at Berne, Switzerland. The clerk was Albert Einstein. The paper outlined his Special Theory of Relativity, a revolutionary…

Sinds 1916, toen dit werk in het Duits verscheen, is het ontelbare malen vertaald en herdrukt. En ondanks het feit dat Einstein in 1955 is overleden en natuurkunde sindsdien een stormachtige ontwikkeling heeft doorgemaakt, is dit boek ook nu nog een…

From the age of Galileo until the early years of the 20th century, scientists grappled with seemingly insurmountable paradoxes inherent in the theories of classical physics. With the publication of Albert Einstein's "special" and "general" theories…

Here are the 11 papers that forged the general and special theories of relativity: seven papers by Einstein, plus two papers by Lorentz and one each by Minkowski and Weyl. "A thrill to read again the original papers by these giants

The book has three parts: classical physics, relativity, and quantum physics (there wasn't much particle physics or cosmology in 1938, after all). The classical treatment is an extended examination of Galilean invariance, and is both brilliant and…