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Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre - Before the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019) Loot Price: R3,292
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Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre - Before the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Christine Leroy

Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre - Before the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

Christine Leroy; Georges Lemaitre; Translated by Stephen N. Lyle; Edited by Jan Govaerts, Jean-Francois Stoffel

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This book presents the first English translation of the original French treatise "La Physique d'Einstein" written by the young Georges Lemai tre in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity. It includes an historical introduction and a critical edition of the original treatise in French supplemented by the author's own later additions and corrections. Monsignor Georges Lemai tre can be considered the founder of the "Big Bang Theory" and a visionary architect of modern Cosmology. The scientific community is only beginning to grasp the full extent of the legacy of this towering figure of 20th century physics. Against the best advice of the greatest names of his time, the young Lemai tre was convinced, solely through the study of Einstein's theory of General Relativity, that space and time must have had a beginning with a tremendous "Big Bang" from a "quantum primeval atom" resulting in an ever-expanding Universe with a positive cosmological constant. But how did the young Lemai tre, essentially on his own, come to grips with the physics of Einstein? A year before his ordination as a diocesan priest, he submitted the audacious treatise, published in this book, that was to earn him Fellowships to study at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard, and launched him on a scientific path of ground-breaking discoveries. Almost a century after Lemai tre's seminal publications of 1927 and 1931, this highly pedagogical treatise is still of timely interest to young minds and remains of great value from a history of science perspective.

General

Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: December 2019
First published: 2019
Translators: Christine Leroy
Authors: Georges Lemaitre
Translators: Stephen N. Lyle
Editors: Jan Govaerts • Jean-Francois Stoffel
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-022029-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Relativity physics > General
LSN: 3-03-022029-X
Barcode: 9783030220297

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