Описание: New perspectives on the iconic physicists scientific and philosophical formation
At the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers. The resulting book was his uniquely personal Autobiographical Notes, a classic work in the history of science that explains the development of his ideas with unmatched warmth and clarity. J rgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund introduce Einsteins scientific reflections to todays readers, tracing his intellectual formation from childhood to old age and offering a compelling portrait of the making of a philosopher-scientist.
Einstein on Einstein features the full English text of Autobiographical Notes along with incisive essays that place Einsteins reflections in the context of the different stages of his scientific life. Renn and Gutfreund draw on Einsteins writings, personal correspondence, and critical writings by Einsteins contemporaries to provide new perspectives on his greatest discoveries. Also included are Einsteins responses to his critics, which shed additional light on his scientific and philosophical worldview. Renn and Gutfreund quote extensively from Einsteins initial, unpublished attempts to formulate his response, and also look at another brief autobiographical text by Einstein, written a few weeks before his death, which is published here for the first time in English.
Complete with evocative drawings by artist Laurent Taudin, Einstein on Einstein illuminates the iconic physicists journey to general relativity while situating his revolutionary ideas alongside other astonishing scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
