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The legacy of Albert Einstein, a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics, Editor: Spenta R. Wadia

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The legacy of Albert Einstein, a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics, Editor: Spenta R. Wadia

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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illustrations

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no index present

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non fiction

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The legacy of Albert Einstein

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bibliographydictionaries

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85442907

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Editor: Spenta R. Wadia

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a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics

Table Of Contents

Preface / Spenta R. Wadia -- Einstein and the search for unification / David Gross -- Einstein and geometry / Michael Atiyah -- String theory and Einstein's dream / Ashoke Sen -- Black hole entropy in string theory: a window into the quantum structure of gravity / Atish Dabholkar -- The winding road to quantum gravity / Abhay Ashtekar -- Brownian functionals in physics and computer science / Satya N. Majumdar -- Bose-Einstein condensation: where many become one and so there is plenty of room at the bottom / N. Kumar -- Many electrons strongly avoiding each other: strange goings on / T.V. Ramakrishnan -- Einstein and the quantum / Virendra Singh -- Einstein's legacy: relativistic cosmology / Jayant V. Narlikar -- Einstein's universe: the challenge of dark energy / Subir Sarkar -- Gravitational radiation: in celebration of Einstein's Annus mirabilis / B.S. Sathyaprakash -- Albert Einstein: radical pacifist and democrat / T. Jayaraman

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The legacy of Albert Einstein: a collection of essays in celebration of the Year of Physics

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