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.

• Einstein's Nobel prize.
  1. Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Why was he againt it?
  2. Einstein and Mesons.
  3. Einstein needs Quantum Mechanics.

• Immanuel Kant. Why was Kant so important to Einstein?
  1. Einstein as a philosopher, Kantian philosopher? Einstein was more than a philosopher!
  2. Richard Feynman. Was he a Kantianist?
  3. An arxived article on Kantianism and Taoism

• Maxwell and Lorentz covariance.
  1. Minkowski, Maxwell's equations, Minkowski space, and his Lithuanian background.
  2. Maxwell and Wigner. Massive and massless particles.

• Further contents of E = mc².

• Newton introduced a new mathematics to explain his new mechanics. Einstein introduced to physics a new mathematics to 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.

• AIP Einstein Page

• Einstein Archives Online

• Einstein Papers Project at Caltech

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