Autobiographical Notes

EINSTEIN, Albert

ISBN 10: 0875483526 / ISBN 13: 9780875483528

Published by Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle and Chicago, Illinois, 1979

About this Item

24cm by 18cm, 89pp, white dustjacket lightly soiled, unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 4445103

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autobiographical Notes
• Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle and Chicago, Illinois
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875483526
• ISBN 13: 9780875483528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This brief work is the closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography. Although a very personal account, it is purely concerned with the development of his ideas, saying little about his private life or about the world-shaking events through which he lived. Starting from little Albert's early disillusionment with religion and his intense fascination with geometry, the narrative presents Einstein's "epistemological credo", then moves through his dissatisfaction with the foundations of Newtonian physics to the development of his own special and general theories of relativity and his opposition to some of the assumptions of quantum theory.