Physics in my generation/
Max Born.-
- nd rev. ed.-
- New York: Springer-Verlag, 1969.
- vii, 172p.: illus.-
- (Heidelberg science library). .
Includes bibliographies.
Introduction to Einstein’s theory of relativity (1921).--Physical aspects of quantum mechanics.--On the meaning of physical theories.--Cause, purpose, and economy in natural laws.--Einstein’s statistical theories.--Physics in the last fifty years.--Is classical mechanics in fact deterministic?--Astronomical recollections.--Statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics.--Physics and relativity.--Development and essence of the atomic age.--A New Year’s message.--Symbol and reality.--What is left to hope for?--In memory of Einstein.--From the postscript to the Restless Universe (1951)