Einstein’s Real Breakthrough: Quantum Theory
Thank you to Yale University for recording this fantastic interview between A. Douglas Stone and Ramamurti Shankar. People may be surprised to hear that Einstein could well be the father of quantum...
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Happy Birthday Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein This is a huge year for Einstein at Princeton University Press. December...
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of general...
On July 15th, Princeton University Press proudly launched two books by Professor Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn, Relativity and The Road to Relativity, at the 14th Marcel Grossman meeting on...
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Washington Post highlights historic clash between Einstein and Bergson on the...
With the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity coming up in November, Einstein is popping up everywhere. Yesterday’s Washington Post ran a terrific feature on Einstein books, including...
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#ThanksEinstein: Katherine Freese on how relativity rejuvenated her career
Under the Spell of Relativity By Katherine Freese Katherine Freese is director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Stockholm, and author of The Cosmic Cocktail, which tells of...
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#ThanksEinstein: J.P. Ostriker on Einstein and the wonder of pure thought
Questions with No Reply J. P. Ostriker J.P. Ostriker is an astrophysicist and the co-author of Heart of Darkness, which tells the saga of humankind’s quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the...
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Happy 100th Anniversary to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity!
Today is the final day of our popular #ThanksEinstein series, in which an array of prominent scholars and scientists have shared their insights and reflections on relativity, Einstein, and how his work...
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Browse Our New History of Science & History of Knowledge 2017 Catalog
Our new History of Science and History of Knowledge catalog includes a fascinating account of the spread of Einstein’s theory of relativity, a timeless defense of the value of basic research, and a new...
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Read like a Nobel Prize-winning physicist
This morning Princeton University Press was thrilled to congratulate PUP author and celebrated physicist Kip Thorne on being a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2017. Dr. Thorne’s research...
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Kip Thorne & Roger Blandford on Modern Classical Physics
This first-year, graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level...
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Celebrate Pi Day with Books about Einstein
Pi Day is coming up! Mathematicians around the world celebrate on March 14th because the date represents the first three digits of π: 3.14. In Princeton, Pi Day is a huge event even for the...
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