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This volume offers a selection of the best contributions by Russian
scholars--historians and philosophers of science--to the Einstein
Studies industry, broadly construed. Most of the papers included
here were first published in Russian in the 'Einshteinovskiy
Sbornik' series (Einstein Studies), the first of its kind, and
initiated in 1966 by Nobel Prize winner Igor Tamm. From 1966-1990,
fourteen volumes of the 'Sbornik' were published by Nauka, the
chief academic publisher in the former Soviet Union. The book
explores such topics as the historical and foundational issues in
general relativity and relativistic cosmology, Einstein's
contributions to quantum theory of radiation, and the rise of
Dirac's quantum electrodynamics. The volume also includes a
detailed description of the physics colloquium Einstein established
and coordinated in 1912-1914 in Zurich. The contributors draw
extensively on documentation previously unavailable to most
scholars. Thus the materials from various Russian archives shed new
light on the famous exchange (regarding the first evolutionary
cosmological models) between Einstein and Aleksandr Friedmann in
the early 1920s and on the role of Boris Podolsky and Vladimir Fock
in the emergence of quantum electrodynamics. The little- known
correspondence between Einstein and a famous German pilot Paul
Ehrhardt suggests that, during World War I, Einstein was involved
with aero- and hydrodynamics and thought about ways of improving
airfoil design. Other articles discuss new approaches to important
questions in the foundations of general relativity and cosmology.
Historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science should be
prepared to find much new and unexpected material in this engaging
volume presenting the best of the recent Russian scholarship in the
field. The book will be accessible to the general reader as well.
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