China and Albert Einstein : The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979 /
This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered argum...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1. Western Physics Comes to China
- 2. China Embraces the Theory of Relativity
- 3. Six Pioneers of Relativity
- 4. From Eminent Physicist to the "Poor Philosopher"
- 5. Einstein: A Hero Reborn from the Criticism
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index