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Alexander A Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand
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Alexander A Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand
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by Eduard A. Tropp, Viktor Ya. Frenkel, Artur D. Chernin, and Alexander Dron
Sales Rank: 1008105
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List Price: $80.00
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Hardcover: 277 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press June 25, 1993
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521384702
ISBN-13: 978-0521384704
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"Friedmann's name has been appearing more frequently in the literature, but this book is the first detailed biography of him to become available in English and thus is of particular value." American Historical Review
"This book fills a large gap in the literature of the history of scienceadmirably opens the history pf Russian physics to closer scrutiny." Paul R. Josephson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"the volume contains a wealth of archival material, identified in the text if not in footnotes, whose discpvery is discussed charmingly wit a freshnesscoveying the excitement of historial research." Noriss S. Hetherington, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
"full of interesting information." Harold Zirin, Nature
"its wealth and its generous citation of Friedmann's popular works on space and time help to fill in a place, a time and a mind we ought to know. No other such source is found in English." Scientific American
"the prose is sometimes intensely personal, reflecting Friedmann's close association with Yakov Ilyich Frenkel, the physicist father of coauthor Viktor Ya. Frenkel. We see how, under the early Bolsheviks, young physicists and mathematicians quickly arrrived at positions of authority and how they vigorously pursued research by their own hands once they had settled into commanding situations." Lewis Pyenson, Physics Today
"this biography provides considerable archival material hitherto unavailable." E. Robert Paul, Isis
"this biography is so well done thatit provides a valuable new perspective on the survival/transformation of Russian science between 1910 and 1925 and on the participation of applied mathematicians in the creation of modern cosmology between 1910 and 1940." Karl Hufbauer, Slavic Review
"its wealth and its generous citation of Friedmann's popular works on space and time help to fill in a place, a time and a mind we ought to know. No other such source is found in English." Scientific American
Product Description
Our universe can be described mathematically by a simple model developed in 1922 at Petrograd (St. Petersburg) by Alexander Friedmann (1888-1925). Without the benefit of observational evidence, Friedmann predicted that the whole universe would expand and evolve with time. This astonishing prediction was confirmed seven years later by Edwin Hubble. Its originator, unfortunately didn't live to savor this triumph. This vivid biography of an outstanding scientist sets his life and work against a wide backdrop of the history of cosmological studies and its major players, such as Einstein and others. The book is a window on Friedmann's school and university years, military service, and teaching and research during a seminal period of Soviet history. The authors include unique archival material, such as Friedmann's letters from the Russian Front, as well as contemporary records and reminiscences of colleagues. There is a detailed treatment of his work in theoretical cosmology (1922-1924), set in the context of the organization of Soviet science at the time.
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