A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html

by peachananr • 13 years ago

38 10 13 years ago

tariqr• 13 years ago

Incredible. You can almost feel the mind thinking freely in that workflow. Pen and paper in the right hands...

aristidb• 13 years ago

Looks like it has been removed, I get a 403 error. :-/

rainboiboi• 13 years ago

yeap, i got it too. Wonder why.

chmars• 13 years ago

Same here … maybe just a hiccup.

miga• 13 years ago

Same problem here. Because I am outside US, maybe?

wad0• 13 years ago

This should be the same notebook:

http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/...

Create• 13 years ago

In one of his letters to her he writes down a list of demands:

http://www.giagia.co.uk/2010/03/23/ada-lovelace-day-2010/

stiff2• 13 years ago

Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20121112213332/http://www.pitt.ed...

coditor• 13 years ago

Fascinating despite being way over my head. Amazing to see math of such complexity done without a computer - we're so spoiled today.

stiff2• 13 years ago

I am not a physicist, maybe one would elaborate on this, but it seems to be rather straightforward mathematics for a physicist to use (fancied-up calculus), and I don't know how a computer would help here at the level of development computers are today, my laymans impression is that the art here lied in choosing what to derive, not in the derivations themselves.