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Max Born, Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski's Space-Time Formalism of Special Relativity
Galina Weinstein
This note is by no means a comprehensive study of Minkowski's space-time formalism of special relativity. The mathematician, Hermann Minkowski was Einstein's former mathematics pro…
Albert Einstein's Methodology
Galina Weinstein
This paper discusses Einstein's methodology. 1. Einstein characterized his work as a theory of principle and reasoned that beyond kinematics, the 1905 heuristic relativity principl…
Einstein's Pathway to the Equivalence Principle 1905-1907
Galina Weinstein
Between 1905 and 1907, Einstein first tried to extend the special theory of relativity in such a way so as to explain gravitational phenomena. This was the most natural and simples…
A Biography of Henri Poincaré - 2012 Centenary of the Death of Poincaré
Galina Weinstein
On January 4, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death, a colloquium was held in Nancy, France the subject of which was "Vers une biographie d'Henri Poincaré". Scholars discus…
The Einstein-Nordström Theory
Galina Weinstein
The Finnish physicist Gunnar Nordström developed a competing theory of gravitation to Einstein's 1912-1913 gravitation theory. The equivalence principle was valid in his theory and…
Variation of Mass with Velocity: "Kugeltheorie" or "Relativtheorie"
Galina Weinstein
This paper deals with four topics: The first subject is Abraham's spherical electron, Lorentz's contracted electron and Bücherer's electron. The second topic is Einstein's 1905 rel…