Subtle is the Lord :The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

基本信息

Author: Abraham Pais

Format: Paperback | 584 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN10 0192806726

ISBN13 9780192806727

Publication date 03 Nov 2005

Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 31mm | 838g

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書籍介紹

這本書是廣泛公認的科學傳記愛因斯坦。已故的亞伯拉罕·佩斯是一位傑出的物理學家，後來成為歷史學家，在他生命的後幾年裏，他在專業和個人方面都認識愛因斯坦。他的傳記從他們多年的相識出發，結合了對愛因斯坦的工作的深刻理解和個人回憶，延續了科學思想。

Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought.

佩斯檢查了愛因斯坦的相對論理論的制定，他的工作在布朗運動，和他的迴應與權威和精確的量子理論。愛因斯坦的思想在世紀之交對物理學產生影響的深刻轉變在這裏為嚴肅的讀者列出。他還填補了我們對愛因斯坦一生的瞭解——他對哲學的興趣，他對猶太人命運的關注，以及他對從牛頓到弗洛伊德等偉大人物的看法。形成了一個20世紀的科學永恆的偉大人物經典傳記。

Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkable volume, written by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of twentieth-century science.

作者簡介

亞伯拉罕·派斯(1918-2000)是一位獲獎的物理學家和傳記作家。在獲得烏得勒支大學的博士學位後，他繼續在哥本哈根與尼爾斯·波爾密切合作，之後加入了普林斯頓高等研究院，並領導了洛克菲勒大學的理論物理小組。他的工作使他與20世紀主要的物理學家——狄拉克、保利、蓋爾曼和愛因斯坦——有了密切的聯繫。他於1978年退休，撰寫了廣受尊敬的科學傳記，並於1979年獲得奧本海默獎。

Abraham Pais (1918-2000) was an award-winning physicist and biographer. Gaining his PhD from Utrecht, he went on to work closely with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and leading the Theoretical Physics Group at Rockefeller University. His work brought him into close professional, and personal, contact with the 20th century's leading physicists - Dirac, Pauli, Gell-Man, and Einstein. He retired in 1978 to write widely respected scientific biographies, and was awarded the Oppenheimer Prize in 1979.