Secrets of the Old One

Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manu... » 

Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner Albert Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century physics. A fourth short paper was received by the journal in September 1905. It contained Einstein's derivation of the formula E=mc2. Taken together the four papers changed our lives in the 20th century and beyond. While to a professional physicist the mathematics in these papers is quite straight forward, the ideas behind the mathematics are not. In fact, none of Einstein's contemporaries fully understood what he had done. «