"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began." Albert Einstein
The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled into Göttingen ......
He shows how to use these methods on a large variety of potentials, both simple and periodic. He shows how to compute bound states, scattering states, and energy bands and describes the relation between bound and scattering states. Chapters on alloys, superlattices, quantum engineering, and solar cells indicate the practical application of the ......
At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein was a habitual globetrotter. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping travel diaries in which he recorded his impressions of people and events. Based on these journals, this title offers a personal portrait of Einstein the man.
Einstein continues to captivate, not only for his revolutionary scientific insights but also for his complex personality and personal pursuits. This book focuses on five aspects of Einstein's emotional nature that had an influence on his life and career. It looks at one of the geniuses of all time who did so much to shape our vision of the world.
A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physicsa theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of ......
Presents a collection of more than sixty letters from children to Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientist of all time. This book presents a biography and chronology of Einstein's life. It is suitable for teachers, parents, and various young, budding scientists in their lives.
A notoriously difficult subject, covariant electrodynamics is nonetheless vital for understanding relativistic field theory. John M. Charap's classroom-tested introduction to the mathematical foundations of the topic presents the material in an approachable manner.Charap begins with a historical overview of electrodynamics and a discussion of the ......
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schroedinger's famous "dead and alive" cat, rely on ......
This updated edition provides an introduction to computational physics in order to perform physics experiments on the computer. Computers can be used for a wide variety of scientific tasks, from the simple manipulation of data to simulations of real-world events. This book is designed to provide the reader with a grounding in scientific ......
