Einstein

Front Cover Title Page Contents Introduction 5 Chapter 1. Adolescence 18 Chapter 2. Student Days 25 Chapter 3. Bern 35 Chapter 4. The "Extra-Personal" 46 Chapter 5. Rationalism 53 Chapter 6. Einstein and Positivism 67 Chapter 7. Dostoyevsky and Mozart 83 Chapter 8. Mathematics and Reality 94 Chapter 9. Points of View in the Selection of Scientific Theories and the Foundations of Classical Physics 111 Chapter 10. Brownian Movement 129 Chapter 11. Photons 138 Chapter 12. The Constancy of the Velocity of Light 143 Chapter 13. The Principle of the Constancy of the Velocity of Light and Classical Physics 150 Chapter 14. The Lorentz Contraction 156 Chapter 15. Space, Time, Energy, and Mass 162 Chapter 16. Prague and Zurich 171 Chapter 17. Berlin 192 Chapter 18. The General Theory of Relativity 200 Chapter 19. Confirmation of the Relativity Theory 206 Chapter 20. Fame 212 Chapter 21. Travels 231 Chapter 22. The Nazi Regime in Germany 248 Chapter 23. Princeton 254 Chapter 24. Einstein's Attitude Towards Quantum Mechanics 269 Chapter 25. Relativity, Quanta, and Unified Field Theory 297 Chapter 26. "The Evolution of Physics" 325 Chapter 27. The A-Bomb Tragedy Chapter 337 Chapter 28. Death 352 Chapter 29. Immortality 362 Selected References 371 Name Index 373