Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein - Softcover

Pais, Abraham

 
9780195204384: Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

Synopsis

Having the advantage of knowing Einstein personally during the last nine years of his life and having access to some of his 50,000 pages of letters and science papers, the author fills many gaps about what we know of Einstein's life. It deals with his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. Also depicts the state of physics at the turn of the century and how Einstein transformed the field.

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Review

"A Masterpiece... the single most comprehensive study of Einstein's scientific work." (THES)

About the Author

About the Author: Abraham Pais is Detlev W. Bronk Professor at the Rockefeller University and winner of the J.R. Oppenheimer Memorial Prize for 1979. He is also the author of Inward Bound and Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity.

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