Einstein Magazine

• Ulm (near Munich). Einstein was born there in 1879.
  1. Photos. Einstein Photos.
  2. 100 years after 1905. A story told by Y. S. Kim.

• Immanuel Kant. Why was Kant so important to Einstein?
  1. Einstein as a philosopher, Kantian philosopher? Einstein was more than a philosopher!
  2. Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube and started electronic industry. Who was the philosopher behind him?
  3. Richard Feynman. Was he a Kantianist?
  4. An arxived article on Kantianism and Taoism

• Maxwell and Lorentz covariance.
• Further contents of E = mc².

• Newton introduced a new mathematics to explain his new mechanics. Einstein introduced to physics a new mathematics implement his new theory.
  1. Poincaré.
  2. Poincaré and Wigner.
  3. Group Contractions. Lorentz and Galilei tranformations.
  4. Neutrino Polarization as a Consequence of Gauge Invariance.
  5. Lorentz group in optical sciences.

• Photo-electric effect.
  1. Brownian Motion and Avogadro's Number.
  2. Bose and Einstein.
  3. Harmonic oscillators and specific heat of solid.
  4. Dirac, Feynman, and their Harmonic Oscillators.
  5. Einstein and String Theory.
  6. Standing Waves and Bound States.

• Heisenberg talks about Einstein.
  1. Fantova talks about Einstein's last year and a half.
  2. Wigner talks about Einstein (1979, Einstein Centennial Year).
  3. Music. Einstein liked music, and he used to play violin.
  4. Christmas Morning at Einstein's House.

• Links to other Einstein sites.

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Einstein photo from the 2004 Einstein Calendar (Avalanche Publishing, Huntington Beach, California, U.S.A.).