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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Cambridge Companion To Einstein by Edited by Michel Janssen , Edited by Christoph Lehner
This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einsteins work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einsteins miracle year, 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einsteins path to the general theory of relativity 1915 and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and gravitational waves. Essays on Einsteins later years examine his unified field theory program and his critique of quantum mechanics. The closing essays explore the relation between Einsteins work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings.show more