Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture

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Peter Galison, Gerald James Holton, Silvan S. Schweber
Princeton University Press, 2008 - 363 Seiten

More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why he remains a figure of fascination.

In this wide-ranging collection, eminent artists, historians, scientists, and social scientists describe Einstein's influence on their work, and consider his relevance for the future. Scientists discuss how Einstein's vision continues to motivate them, whether in their quest for a fundamental description of nature or in their investigations in chaos theory; art scholars and artists explore his ties to modern aesthetics; a music historian probes Einstein's musical tastes and relates them to his outlook in science; historians explore the interconnections between Einstein's politics, physics, and philosophy; and other contributors examine his impact on the innovations of our time. Uniquely cross-disciplinary, Einstein for the 21st Century serves as a testament to his legacy and speaks to everyone with an interest in his work.

The contributors are Leon Botstein, Lorraine Daston, E. L. Doctorow, Yehuda Elkana, Yaron Ezrahi, Michael L. Friedman, Jürg Fröhlich, Peter L. Galison, David Gross, Hanoch Gutfreund, Linda D. Henderson, Dudley Herschbach, Gerald Holton, Caroline Jones, Susan Neiman, Lisa Randall, Jürgen Renn, Matthew Ritchie, Silvan S. Schweber, and A. Douglas Stone.

 

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Inhalt

Who Was Einstein? Why Is He Still So Alive?
3
A Short History of Einsteins Paradise beyond the Personal
15
Einsteins Jewish Identity
27
Einstein and God
35
Einsteins Unintended Legacy The Critique of CommonSense Realism and PostModern Politics
48
Subversive Einstein
59
Einstein and Nuclear Weapons
72
ART AND WORLD
99
SCIENCE AND WORLD
183
The Assassin of Relativity
185
Space Time and Geometry Einstein and Logical Empiricism
205
Einstein as a Student
217
Learning from Einstein Innovation in Science
239
Einstein and h Advances in Quantum Mechanics
257
Einsteins Unknown Contribution to Quantum Theory
270
Einstein and the Quest for a Unified Theory
287

Einstein and 20thCentury Art A Romance of Many Dimensions
101
Rendering Time
130
Into the Bleed Einstein and 21stCentury Art
150
Einstein and Music
161
Seeing the Unseen
176
Energy in Einsteins Universe
299
Notes
311
Contributors
341
Index
349
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Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture
Peter L. Galison,Gerald Holton,Silvan S. Schweber
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Autoren-Profil (2008)

Born in Berlin, Germany, Gerald Holton received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1946. Shortly afterward, he launched into what has become a major part of his career---directing a well-known program that originally was developed to teach physical science to liberal arts majors at Harvard. This program, called Harvard Project Physics, became the model for an ambitious program to teach physics in a similar historical manner in colleges and high schools throughout the United States. Later, Holton used this model in a somewhat different manner, establishing a program for the public understanding of science that eventually grew into a journal, Science, Technology and Human Values. For many years, Holton was a coeditor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also gained recognition as a biographer of Albert Einstein, and he has worked tirelessly to demonstrate that science requires as much creative imagination as do the arts and humanities.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelEinstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture
HerausgeberPeter Galison, Gerald James Holton, Silvan S. Schweber
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagPrinceton University Press, 2008
ISBN0691135207, 9780691135205
Länge363 Seiten
  
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