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Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac Newton. This book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and the Bose-Einstein condensate. It traces the history of radiation and heat capacity theory from the mid-19th century.

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"It is rarely remembered in popular science circles that Einstein did much basic work on Brownian motion, produced a theory of solid-state heat capacities, and combined with the Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose to produce the so-called Bose-Einstein statistics as well. This book aims to examine these topics, apart from Brownian motion, in conjunction with Planck's contribution to the theory of black-body radiation... This book [is] ... highly recommended."--Jeremy Dunning-Davies, Chemistry World "[T]he one point that [this book] makes about Einstein is a significant one: that his contributions to quantum mechanics, and particularly to quantum statistical mechanics, are arguably at least as revolutionary as those he made via his much more famous relativity theory."--Philip Anderson, Times Higher Education Supplement

Einsteins Other Theory

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 14 March 2005
      ISBN-13 9780691118260
      978-0691118260
      ISBN-10 0691118264
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      Book Synopsis
      Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac Newton. This book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and the Bose-Einstein condensate. It traces the history of radiation and heat capacity theory from the mid-19th century.

      Trade Review
      "It is rarely remembered in popular science circles that Einstein did much basic work on Brownian motion, produced a theory of solid-state heat capacities, and combined with the Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose to produce the so-called Bose-Einstein statistics as well. This book aims to examine these topics, apart from Brownian motion, in conjunction with Planck's contribution to the theory of black-body radiation... This book [is] ... highly recommended."--Jeremy Dunning-Davies, Chemistry World "[T]he one point that [this book] makes about Einstein is a significant one: that his contributions to quantum mechanics, and particularly to quantum statistical mechanics, are arguably at least as revolutionary as those he made via his much more famous relativity theory."--Philip Anderson, Times Higher Education Supplement

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