This engaging volume offers a selection of the best contributions by Russian historians and philosophers of science to the Einstein Studies industry.

Zusammenfassung
This volume presents a selection of the best contributions by Russian scholars to the Einstein Studies industry. Topics include the famous exchange between Einstein and Alexander Friedmann in the early 1920s and the role of Podolsky and Fock in the emergence of quantum electrodynamics.

Inhalt

Preface Viktor Frenkel, "Einstein and Friedmann" Gennady Gorelik, "The Problem of Conservation Laws and the Poincaré Quasigroup in General Relativity" Vladimir Vizgin, "The Role Played by Mach's Ideas in the Genesis of the General Theory of Relativity" Gennady Gorelik, "Hermann Weyl and Large Numbers in Relativistic Cosmology" Yuri Balashov, "Laws of Physics and the Universe" Vladimir Vizgin and Viktor Frenkel, "Vsevolod Frederiks, Pioneer of Relativism and Liquid Crystal Physics" Alexei Kojevnikov, "Einstein's Fluctuation Formula and the Wave-Particle Duality" Alexei Kojevnikov, "Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics" Boris Yavelov, "Einstein's Zurich Colloquium" Victor Frenkel and Boris Yavelov, "What May Happen to a Man Who Thinks a Great Deal but Reads Very Little" * Index