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The legacy of Albert Einstein : a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics / Editor: Spenta R. Wadia

Published
Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
xviii, 260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Wadia, S. R. (Spenta R.)

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Contents
Preface / Spenta R. Wadia -- Einstein and the search for unification / David Gross -- Einstein and geometry / Michael Atiyah -- String theory and Einstein's dream / Ashoke Sen -- Black hole entropy in string theory: a window into the quantum structure of gravity / Atish Dabholkar -- The winding road to quantum gravity / Abhay Ashtekar -- Brownian functionals in physics and computer science / Satya N. Majumdar -- Bose-Einstein condensation: where many become one and so there is plenty of room at the bottom / N. Kumar -- Many electrons strongly avoiding each other: strange goings on / T.V. Ramakrishnan -- Einstein and the quantum / Virendra Singh -- Einstein's legacy: relativistic cosmology / Jayant V. Narlikar -- Einstein's universe: the challenge of dark energy / Subir Sarkar -- Gravitational radiation: in celebration of Einstein's Annus mirabilis / B.S. Sathyaprakash -- Albert Einstein: radical pacifist and democrat / T. Jayaraman.
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ISBN
9812700498
9789812700490
9812704809 (pbk.)
9789812704801 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Acquisition
Physical & Mathematical Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20078.
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