Paper | April 2005 | ISBN: 0-691-12075-7
Cloth | April 2005 | ISBN: 0-691-12074-9
440 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 26 halftones.
For the first time in paperback, here is a newly expanded edition
of the best-selling book that was hailed as "setting a new
standard" for quotation books. Tens of thousands of readers
have enjoyed The Quotable Einstein and The Expanded Quotable
Einstein, with translations into twenty-two languages. This
updated edition--which appears on the 100th anniversary of
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and the 50th anniversary
of Einstein's death--offers more than 300 new quotations, or over
1,200 altogether. Nearly all are by Einstein himself and a few
are about the self-professed "lone wolf" Time magazine
named "Man of the Century" at the turn of the
millennium.
The New Quotable Einstein also includes a new section, "On
Aging," and fresh material has been added to the appendix-from
a touching account by Helen Dukas of Einstein's last days to a
day-by-day summary of Johanna Fantova's telephone conversations
with Einstein during the final year and a half of his life.
Also included are a poem called "Einstein," by Robert
Service; and three virtually unknown verses to the song "As
Time Goes By" (made famous in the movie Casablanca) that
refer to Einstein. New photographs have been selected to
introduce each section of the book.
Through well-documented quotations and supplementary information,
The New Quotable Einstein provides a bigger and better
biographical account of this multifaceted man-as son, husband,
father, lover, scientist, philosopher, aging widower,
humanitarian, and friend. It shows us even more vividly why the
real and imagined Einstein continues to fascinate people across
the world into the twenty-first century.
300-plus new quotations, more than 1,200 in all
A day-by-day summary of Johanna Fantova's phone conversations
with Einstein toward the end of his life
A touching account of Einstein's last days
A new section, "On Aging"
Three virtually unknown original verses of the song "As Time
Goes By" (from the movie Casablanca) that refer to Einstein
Robert Service's poem "Einstein"
Alice Calaprice was until recently a Senior Editor at Princeton
University Press, where she worked with the Einstein Papers for
more than twenty years. She is also the author of The Einstein
Almanac and coauthor of a forthcoming biography of Einstein for
teenagers. Freeman Dyson is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of
several books, including Disturbing the Universe and Origins of
Life.
Reviews:
From review of Princeton's original edition: "All of us who
lack Einstein's intellectual and spiritual gifts owe a debt of
gratitude to Princeton University Press for having humanized him
in this innovative way."--Timothy Ferris, New York Times
Book Review
From review of Princeton's original edition: "Masquerading
as a quote book, this title may set a new standard for the genre
as well as expand the concept. It is filled with the written and
spoken thoughts of this cultural icon as well as those merely
attributed to him but conveys much more than a traditional
collection of sayings might."--Bloomsbury Review
From review of Princeton's original edition: "This
fascinating book reveals Einstein as a fully rounded human, with
both a tender and a darker, more brooding side."--Physics
World
From review of Princeton's original edition: "The chief
value of this collection of [Einstein's] more memorable
observations on the events of the 20th century and his own part
in them is that it reveals the development of the person as well
as that of the scientist. [The Quotable Einstein] is something of
a triumph."--New Scientist
With a new introduction by John Stachel
With a foreword by Roger Penrose
Paper | May 2005 | ISBN: 0-691-12228-8
248 pp. | 5 x 8 | 5 halftones
After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be
the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many
cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that
would establish him as the world's leading physicist. This book
brings those papers together in an accessible format. The best-known
papers are the two that founded special relativity: On the
Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and Does the Inertia of a Body
Depend on Its Energy Content? In the former, Einstein showed that
absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of
light. In the second, he asserted the equivalence of mass and
energy, which would lead to the famous formula E = mc2.
The book also includes On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning
the Production and Transformation of Light, in which Einstein
challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could
also be regarded as a collection of particles. This helped to
open the door to a whole new world--that of quantum physics. For
ideas in this paper, he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.
The fourth paper also led to a Nobel Prize, although for another
scientist, Jean Perrin. On the Movement of Small Particles
Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic
Theory of Heat concerns the Brownian motion of such particles.
With profound insight, Einstein blended ideas from kinetic theory
and classical hydrodynamics to derive an equation for the mean
free path of such particles as a function of the time, which
Perrin confirmed experimentally. The fifth paper, A New
Determination of Molecular Dimensions, was Einstein's doctoral
dissertation, and remains among his most cited articles. It shows
how to calculate Avogadro's number and the size of molecules.
These papers, presented in a modern English translation, are
essential reading for any physicist, mathematician, or
astrophysicist. Far more than just a collection of scientific
articles, this book presents work that is among the high points
of human achievement and marks a watershed in the history of
science.
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the miraculous year,
this new paperback edition includes an introduction by John
Stachel, which focuses on the personal aspects of Einstein's
youth that facilitated and led up to the miraculous year.
John Stachel is Professor of Physics Emeritus at Boston
University, where he directs the Center for Einstein Studies.
Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at
the University of Oxford and holds a regular visiting appointment
at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is Francis R. Penz
and Helen M. Penz Distinguished Professor of Physics and
Mathematics.
ISBN 1-58053-530-5
402 pages.
Copyright 2005.
With the scope and frequency of attacks on valuable corporate
data growing enormously in recent years, a solid understanding of
cryptography is essential for anyone working in the computer/network
security field. This timely book delivers the hands-on knowledge
you need, offering comprehensive coverage on the latest and most-important
standardized cryptographic techniques to help you protect your
data and computing resources to the fullest. Rather than focusing
on theory like other books on the market, this unique resource
describes cryptography from an end-user perspective, presenting
in-depth, highly practical comparisons of standards and
techniques.
You learn, in detail, what cryptography can achieve and discover
how to choose cryptographic standards that ensure state-of-the-art
protection and maximum interoperability. Moreover, the book
explains how to select standardized techniques that are most
suitable for your specific needs. From encryption, cryptographic
hash-functions, and message authentication codes, to digital
signatures, authentication protocols, and public key
infrastructures, this authoritative reference gives you complete
working knowledge of the critical cryptographic tools being
utilized world-wide. The book concludes with a look at the future
of cryptography, including discussions on crypto-modules and
biometrics.
2005, Approx. 560 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-22926-4
About this book
A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and
theoretical in his approach, Peter Lax has spent most of his
professional career at NYU, making significant contributions to
both mathematics and computing. He has written several important
published works and has received numerous honors including the
National Medal of Science, the Lester R. Ford Award, the
Chauvenet Prize, the Semmelweis Medal, the Wiener Prize, and the
Wolf Prize. Several students he has mentored have become leaders
in their fields.
These two volumes span the years from 1952 up until 1999, and
cover many varying topics, from functional analysis, partial
differential equations, and numerical methods to conservation
laws, integrable systems and scattering theory. After each paper,
or collection of papers, is a commentary placing the paper in
context and where relevant discussing more recent developments.
Many of the papers in these volumes have become classics and
should be ready by any serious student of these topics. In terms
of insight, depth, and breadth, Las has few equals. The reader of
this selecta will quickly appreciate his brilliance as well as
his masterful touch. Having this collection of papers in one
place allows one to follow the evolution of his ideas and
mathematical interests and to appreciate how many of these papers
initiated topics that developed lives of their own.
Table of contents
* Table of Contents * List of Publications * Acknowledgment *
Scattering Theory in Euclidean Space * Scattering Theory for
Automorphic Functions * Functional Analysis * Analysis * Algebra
Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1865
2005, XVIII, 299 p., Softcover
ISBN: 3-540-24406-9
About this book
This volume is the first of two volumes containing the revised
and completed notes lectures given at the school "Quantum
Independent Increment Processes: Structure and Applications to
Physics". This school was held at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg
in Greifswald during the period March 9 ? 22, 2003, and supported
by the Volkswagen Foundation. The school gave an introduction to
current research on quantum independent increment processes aimed
at graduate students and non-specialists working in classical and
quantum probability, operator algebras, and mathematical physics.
The present first volume contains the following lectures: "Levy
Processes in Euclidean Spaces and Groups" by David
Applebaum, "Locally Compact Quantum Groups" by Johan
Kustermans, "Quantum Stochastic Analysis" by J. Martin
Lindsay, and "Dilations, Cocycles and Product Systems"
by B.V. Rajarama Bhat.
Table of contents
Levy Processes in Euclidean Spaces and Groups.- Locally Compact
Quantum Groups.- Quantum Stochastic Analysis - an Introduction.-
Dilations, Cocycles and Product Systems