Alexander a Friedmann : The Man who Made the Universe Expand
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0521384702
ISBN-13
9780521384704
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 1993
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
556 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.80 cms
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A 1993 biography of the outstanding physicist who first put forward the theory of the expanding universe. A vivid account of science, society and higher education in Russia from about 1908 to 1924.
Our universe can be described mathematically by a simple model developed in 1922 at Petrograd (St Petersburg) by Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), who predicted that the whole universe would expand and evolve with time before there was any observational evidence. He was an outstanding Soviet physicist, and this vivid 1993 biography is set in a wide historical background. The book is a window on the school and university years, military service, teaching and research during a seminal period of Soviet history. The authors include unique archival material, such as Friedmann's letters from the 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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