Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity An End to the Controversy
1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this theory on his own, overcoming all the difficulties t...
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2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | History of Physics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From Luminiferous Ether to the Earth's Motion
- Principle of Relativity
- Towards a New Transformation
- Poincaré's New Mechanics
- Poincaré's Note and Memoir
- Einstein's Article of 1905
- Poincaré's Hypothesis and Results vs. Einstein's
- The Reception of the Special Relativity in Europe
- The Race for the Nobel Prize
- Conclusion