Einstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Brian.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (705 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This book is the first to explore in detail Einstein's passion for music. As well as physics, music played a dominant part in his life. By unearthing new details on his life in music, Foster throws a new light on the "annus mirabilis" of 1905 and the creation of General Relativity in the next decade.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright page

Foreword

Contents

List of Figures

1 Origins and beginnings (1879-1895)

2 School and first loves (1895-1896)

3 Student at the Polytechnikum in Zurich (1896-1900)

4 Mileva and first steps in research (1900-1902)

5 Marriage and the Patent Office in Bern (1902-1904)

6 Annus mirabilis (1905)

7 Recognition and first steps in academia (1906-1909)

8 `Oh what a tangled web . . .' (1909-1910)

9 Extraordinary Professor at Zurich (1909-1911)

10 Prague (1911-1912)

11 Zurich again: General relativity begun (1912-1914)

12 Berlin, war, marriage breakup, and general relativity completed (1914-1915)

13 Music and the war years in Berlin (1915-1917)

14 The war, the empire, and Einstein's marriage end in chaos

Remarriage and the eclipse (1917-1919)

15 Fame: Life and music in Berlin, and first visit to the US (1919-1922)

16 The Nobel Prize and travels to France, Japan, Palestine, and Spain (1920-1923)

17 Family and female complications require the solace of music (1923-1928)

18 Bose-Einstein and quantum mechanics (1924-1927)

19 Illness and recuperation

Fiftieth birthday and unified theories (1927-1929)

20 Life and Music at Caputh

Journeys to Solvay Conference, England, New York and California (1929-1930)

21 Caltech and Chaplin

First visit to Oxford (1931)

22 Return to Caltech and Oxford

Tete's breakdown

Nazis impinge on the Caputh idyl (1932)

23 Final visit to Caltech

Hitler comes to power

Exile around Europe (1933)

24 Final stays in UK

Farewell to Europe and arrival in Princeton (1933)

25 Life and music in Princeton and New York (1933)

26 The New York Einstein concert, and others

Death of Ilse Einstein (1933-1934)

27 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen and gravitational waves

Death of Elsa Einstein (1934-1936).

28 Refugees arrive, including Maja Einstein (1936-1939)

29 War and the atomic bomb (1939-1945)

30 Warrior for peace

The Brandeis University affair

Death of Mileva Einstein (1945-1949)

31 The end of violin playing

Death of Maja Einstein

Einstein the political activist (1950-1954)

32 Oppenheimer, Russell-Einstein manifesto

Last things (1954-1955)

33 Afterword

Figure Credits

Notes and References in the Text

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-183639-7

0-19-251396-6

9780192513960

OCLC:

1569121828