L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-17684-6 (ISBN)
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This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889-1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925 and an Academician (the highest scientific title in the USSR) in 1929, describes his contributions to both physics and technology. It also discusses the scientific community that formed around him, commonly known as the Mandelstam School. By doing so, it places Mandelstam's life story in its cultural context: the context of German University (until 1914), the First World War, the Civil War, and the development of the Socialist Revolution (until 1925) and the young socialist country. The book considers various general issues, such as the impact of German scientific culture on Russian science; the problems and fates of Russian intellectuals during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; the formation of the Soviet Academy of Science, the State Academy; and the transformation of the system of higher education in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s. Further, it reconstructs Mandelstam's philosophy of science and his approach to the social and ethical function of science and science education based on his fundamental writings and lecture notes. This reconstruction is enhanced by extensive use of previously unpublished archive material as well as the transcripts of personal interviews conducted by the author.
The book also discusses the biographies of Mandelstam's friends and collaborators: German mathematician and philosopher Richard von Mises, Soviet Communist Party official and philosopher B.M.Hessen, Russian specialist in radio engineering N.D.Papalexy, the specialists in non-linear dynamics A.A.Andronov, S.E. Chaikin, A.A.Vitt and the plasma physicist M.A.Leontovich.
This second, extended edition reconstructs the social and economic backgrounds of Mandelstam and his colleagues, describing their positions at the universities and the institutes belonging to the Academy of Science. Additionally, Mandelstam's philosophy of science is investigated in connection with the ideological attacks that occurred after Mandelstam's death, particularly the great mathematician A.D.Alexandrov's criticism of Mandelstam's operationalism.
Alexander Alexandrovich Pechenkin graduated from the Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology in 1963, and received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Philosophy at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1968. In 1976 he graduated from the Mechanico-Mathematical Faculty (School) at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1985 Pechenkin received his Doctor of Science degree from the Institute of Philosophy. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of History at the USSR Academy of Sciences Science Institute of History of Science and Technology.
lt;p>Preface
Introduction
1. Who was Mandelstam for science?
2. Literature about Mandelstam.
3. About the 'blank spots".
4. The sources.
5. The plan of the book.6. Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1. Youth and Strasbourg years.
1. Youth.
2. At Strasbourg University.
3. Strasbourg University.
4. Ferdinand Braun
5. F. Braun's philosophy of science.
6. Richard von Mises.
Chapter 2. The Strasbourg years: radio engineering.
1. Radio engineering at Strasbourg University
2. Mandelstam's degree work.
3. Experiments with weak coupling
4. F. Braun's energy scheme.
5. "On the theory of the Braun transmitter".6. The phase shift of oscillations.
7. Business in radio engineering.
8. L. Mandelstam - J. Fleming polemics.
9. The Mandelstam-Papalexy induction dynamometer.
Chapter 3. The Strasbourg period: optics.
1. Historiography: Mandelstam and optics.
2. On optically homogeneous and turbid medium. Mandelstam attacks Lord Rayleigh.
3. The Mandelstam criticism of the M. Planck theory of dispersion.
4. M. Planck's response. Polemics.
5. The years of democracy: I. Sobelman criticizes Mandelstam.
6. 'On the roughness of the fluid free surface".
7. "A radiation of the light source, located very close to boundary between two transparent media".
8. The radio-engineering genesis of L.I. Mandelstam's optics.
9. Mythology
Chapter 4. The years of Pilgrimage (1914-1925).
1. Petrograd.2. Tiflis (Tbilisi).
3. Odessa
4. The central radio laboratory.
5. What do we learn about Mandelstam's life from his and his wife's letters to Richard von Mises?
6. Mandelstam and Tamm.
Chapter 5. Moscow State University (1925-1935).
1. Invitation.
2. At the university.
3. "About the main groups of professors".
4. Boris Hessen
5. Mandelstam as a teacher.6. Teaching as an ethical position.
7. "Dear friend, dear Mis..." Mandelstam's letters to R. von Mises.
Chapter 6. Research in optics (Odessa - Moscow).
1. The Brillouin -Mandelstam effect.
2. The combinational scattering of light (Rahman effect).
3. The Indian version of the discovery of the combinational scattering.4. The Nobel Prize.
Chapter 7. The Mandelstam school: the early steps and results.
1. What is a scientific schools2. L.I. Mandelstam L.I., G.S. Landsberg G.S., M.A. Leontovich, M.A. Reserch inoptics, 1925-1929.
3. The Mandelstam and Leontovich article on quantum mechanics, 1928.
3. Andronov-Leontovich and Mandelstam-Andronov-Leontovich.
4. Parametric Generators.
Chapter 8. The Mandelstam's school: the theory of non-linear oscillations.
1. Mandelstam and the theory of non-linear oscillations
2. The rise of the concept of self-oscillations.
3. The problem of multivibrator. Andronov- Vitt.
4. The "entrainment" and "retarded action". B. Van der Pol, A. Andronov, A. Vitt.5. The method of a small parameter. A slowly variable amplitude.
6. The First All-Union conference.
Chapter 9. Continuation. The Mandelstam-Andronov school.
1. Terminology
2. Competition3. In search for self-oscillations.
4. From concentrated systems to distributed ones.
5. The "self-oscillatory ideology" versus the "self-oscillatory paradigm.
Chapter 10. M.A. Leontovich and nuclear physics
1. The biography of Leontovich
2. Leontovich's textbook on statistical physics.3. Leontovich's research for the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
4. E.P.Velikhov, Leontovich's assistant.
Chapter 11. Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences
1. Institute of Physics (Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
2. School of Mandelstam, Research Institute of Physics (NIIF) and Institute of Physics (FIAN)
3. Radiointerferometry4. Ya.L. Alpert, V.V. Migulin, and P.A. Ryazin.
Chapter 12. The social backgrounds of the Mandelstam school.
1. Science and socialism
2. "Laboratory life" of the Mandestam's school.
3. The Mandelstam school and the Soviet military projects.Chapter 13. Borovoie and the last year in Moscow.
1. Borovoie.
2. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky.
3. Academician election.
4. The last year in Moscow.
Chapter 14. The Mandelstam operationalism.
1. In which way the term "operationalism' was applied to Mandelstam's methodology.
2. Mandelstam's operationalist statements
3. Operationalism for classic physics.
4. Mandelstam's operationalism and Bridgman's operationalism.
5. The philosophical foundations of Mandelstam's operationalism.
6. The "appropriate idealization".
Chapter 15. The Mandelstam interpretation of quantum mechanics in the context of the 1930-1940 discussions.
1. Mandelstam and quantum mechanics.
2. Controversies in the interpretations of Mandelstam's interpretation.
3. Definition of the ensemble interpretation.
4. The "real" and ideal (Gibbsian) ensembles.
5. One more distinction: hidden variables.
6. The Soviet ensemble interpretations. K.V. Nikolsky.
7. The prerequisites of the Mandelstam interpretation.
8. B.M. Hessen and A.A. Andronov.
Chapter 16. The Mandelstam philosophy of science from the point of view of the postwar discussions.
1. The ideological attack against the Mandelstam philosophy of science.
2. A.D.Alexandrov's criticism3. The Mandelstam-Alexandrov controversy from the point of view of the contemporary discussions.
Conclusion.
Literature.
Archive sources.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 259 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 571 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Schlagworte | Combinatorial Scattering of Light • German Scientific Culture • Mandelstam and Tamm • Mandelstam School • Mandelstam's Life Story • Operationalism for Classical Physics • Physics in the USSR • Radio Engineering • Raman Effect • Scientific Biography of Mandelstam • Social and Ethical Functions of Science • Theory of Oscillations |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-17684-3 / 3030176843 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-17684-6 / 9783030176846 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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