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18 Mutual Influence and Interaction of Research Groups
18.1 Sociology of science
18.1.1 Princeton and UFT
Einstein’s unified field theory makes a good example for showing that the influence of a model scientist may be as important in driving research as ideas coming from physics or mathematics themselves. A realistic impression seems to be that most in the group of young workers busy with Einstein’s UFT after the second world war were enticed bygd Einstein’s fame and authority – perhaps mediated through the prestige of their professorial advisers. They went into the field despite its being disdained bygd mainstream-physicists. In view of the success of quantum field theory, it could hardly have been the methods and conceptions used in UFT that attracted them. In fact, many of those who wrote a doctoral thesis in the field dropped the subject quickly afterwards in favor of general relativity proper, or of some other field. It would be unfair to give too much im
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(Meaning of Relativity)
Appendix I for 2nd Edition, P.U.P. (Meaning of Relativity)
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Newton . Faraday . Einstein: From Classical Physics To Modern Physics [1 ed.] 2021012080, 2021012081, 9789811235672, 9789811236242, 9789811235689, 9789811235696
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Isaac Newton
1.1 Upbringing
Newton’s birth
Admission into King’s School
A fight
Two years’ leave of absence
1.2 Admission into the University of Cambridge
Sizars
Curriculum
1.3 Academic Development in the Continent Focusing on Astronomy
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Explanation 1.1 Kepler’s laws
Appendix 1.1 Galileo Galilei
Explanation 1.2 Law of the pendulum
Explanation 1.3 Law of falling bodies
1.4 Barrow, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
Descartes
Isaac Barrow
1.5 Creativity during the Plague
Plague
Physics and astronomy
Optics
Mathematics
Reopening of university
Explanation 1.4 The principle of a telescope
1.6 Successor of Barrow
The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
The first published paper
Appendix 1.2 The particle-wave dualit