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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Einstein Formative Years 1879 1909 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | This volume brings together some of the best recent scholarship on what might be termed Einstein's formative period, that is, the thirty years before he obtained his first academic position in 1909. |
 | | Topics covered include Einstein's early reading and his university education, his early views on scientific method and some of the crucial philosophical influences shaping those views, his early work on statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, quantum theory, relativity theory, and his youthful vision of a unified foundation for physics. |
 | | This engaging book examining the young Einstein from a variety of perspectives---personal, scientific, historical, and philosophical--- will be accessible to a broad general readership. |
| www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0817640304 (312 words) |
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