Where can I find Einstein's derivation of E=mc² in English?

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¿How did Einstein derived that E=mC2?. ¿ Can I find an english translation of his original paper?.
 
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Iraides Belandria said:
¿How did Einstein derived that E=mC2?. ¿ Can I find an english translation of his original paper?.

See
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf
(there is translated in english the second article Einstein published in Annalen der physik about special relativity -thanks dex, i missed last- in german)
 
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It was his second article on SR in 1905 and the IV-th overall in that year.

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/chron-1905.htm

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thanks Rebel and dextercioby for the required information
 
You can simply take this integral and you'll get [tex]E = mc^2[/tex]

[tex]\int^c_0{P dv} ;[/tex]

where [tex]P = mv\gamma[/tex]

and [tex]\gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}}[/tex]

[tex]\int^c_0 {\frac{mv}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}} dv = mc^2[/tex]