Einstein His Life and Times By PHILIPP FRANK. Contents include: I.
EINSTEIN'S YOUTH AND TRAINING 1 Family Background 3 2 Childhood 6 3
Gymnasium in Munich 10 4 Intellectual Interests 12 5 Departure from
Munich 15 6 Student at Zurich 18 7 Official of a Patent Office 21
II. CONCEPTIONS OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD BEFORE EINSTEIN 1
Philosophical Conception of Nature 25 2 Organismic Physics of the
Middle Ages 27 3 Mechanistic Physics and Philosophy 28 4 Relativity
Principle in Newtonian Mechanics 30 5 Ether as a Mechanical
Hypothesis 32 6 Remnants of Medieval Concepts in Mechanistic
Physics 34 7 Critics of the Mechanistic Philosophy 36 8 Ernst Mach:
The General Laws of Physics Are Summaries of Observations Organized
in Simple Forms 38 9 Henri Polncarl: The General Laws of Physics
Are Free Creations of the Human Mind 40 10 Positivistic and
Pragmatic Movements 42 11 Science at the End of the Nineteenth
Century 45 HI. BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS 1 Life in Bern 49
2 Interest in Philosophy 50 3 The Fundamental Hypotheses of the
Theory of Relativity 53 vli Contents 4 Consequences of Einstein's
Two Hypotheses 55 5 Relativity of Time 57 6 Relativity of Other
Physical Concepts 63 7 Equivalence of Mass and Energy 65 8 Theory
of Brownian Motion 67 9 Origin of the Quantum Theory 69 10 Theory
of the Photon 71 IV. EINSTEIN AT PRAGUE 1 Professor at the
University of Zurich 74 2 Appointment to Prague 77 3 Colleagues at
Prague 80 4 TA? Jews in Prague 83 5 Einstein's Personality
Portrayed in a Novel 85 6 Einstein as a Professor 89 7
Generalization of the Special Theory of Relativity 91 8 Influence
of Gravity on the Propagation of Light 94 9 Departure from Prague
98 V. EINSTEIN AT BERLIN 1 The Solvay Congress101 2 Trip to Vienna
103 3 Invitation to Berlin 106 4 Einstein's Position in the
Academic Life of Berlin 109 5 Relationship with Colleagues 112 6
Relationship with Students 116 7 Outbrea of the World War 119 8
German Science in the War 121 9 Lz'jfe iVz Wartime 123 VI. THE
GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY 1 New Theory of Gravitation 127 2 .
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