Free creations of the human mind : the worlds of Albert Einstein / Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D. Gordin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchwald, Diana Kormos, 1956- author.

Gordin, Michael D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Einstein, Albert.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Political and social views.

Physicists--Biography.

Physicists.

Science and civilization.

Science and state.

physicists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 137 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

monochrome

illustration

portrait

Other Title:

Worlds of Albert Einstein

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book highlights Einstein's accomplishments beyond the scientific field, including political and humanitarian engagements. Disentangles the much mythologized public persona of Einstein from the private man. Situates Einstein's outsized role within twentieth-century physics and political, intellectual, and cultural history."-- Provided by publisher.

"Presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work within the intellectual and social context of transformative events in the development of science based on the study of his personal archive and the assiduous research of several generations of scholars. Disentangling the public persona from the private man, this book presents Einstein immersed in scientific and political controversies, faced with a variety of challenges, a man whose life was framed by turbulent, violent historical events"-- Dust jacket.

Contents:

Bern and Princeton

Relativity theory

Quantum theory

Belonging

War and peace

Free creations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197678190

019767819X

OCLC:

1453070417