The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs by Gutfreund, Hanoch

The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691277448)

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The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs by Gutfreund, Hanoch

The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs

$19.95
The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs by Gutfreund, Hanoch

The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science

The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein's work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein's miracle year of 1905 and continuing through his development of the theory of general relativity, Einstein spurred a revolution that continues to reverberate in modern-day physics. In The Einsteinian Revolution, Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn trace the century-long transformation of classical physics and argue that the revolution begun by Einstein was in fact the result of a long-term evolution. Describing the origins and context of Einstein's innovative research, Gutfreund and Renn work to dispel the popular myth of Einstein as a lone genius who brought about a revolution in physics through the power of his own pure thought. We can only understand the birth of modern physics, they say, if we understand the long history of the evolution of knowledge.

Gutfreund and Renn outline the essential structures of the knowledge system of classical physics on which Einstein drew. Examining Einstein's discoveries from 1905 onward, they describe the process by which new concepts arose and the basis of modern physics emerged. These transformations continued, eventually resulting in the establishment of quantum physics and general relativity as the two major conceptual frameworks of modern physics--and its two unreconciled theoretical approaches. Gutfreund and Renn note that Einstein was dissatisfied with this conceptual dichotomy and began a search for a unified understanding of physics--a quest that continued for the rest of his life.

Author: Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
ISBN-10: 0691277443
ISBN-13: 9780691277448
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2025
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.68d
By Hanoch Gutfreund
By Hanoch Gutfreund
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Hanoch Gutfreund is professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is also academic director of the Albert Einstein Archives. Jürgen Renn is founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and former director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of The Evolution of Knowledge (Princeton). Gutfreund and Renn are the authors of Einstein on Einstein and The Formative Years of Relativity (both Princeton).

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