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The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century''s most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a Jewish homeland, Einstein was a remarkably prolific political writer, someone who took courageous and often unpopular stands against nationalism, militarism, anti-Semitism, racism, and McCarthyism. In Einstein on Politics, leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einstein''s most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little-known Einstein--not the ineffectual and naïve idealist of popular imagination, but a principled, shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity. Nothing encapsulates Einstein''s profound involvement in twentieth-century politics like the atomic bomb. Here we read the former militant pacifist''s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Germany might try to develop an atomic bomb. But the book also documents how Einstein tried to explain this action to Japanese pacifists after the United States used atomic weapons to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events that spurred Einstein to call for international control of nuclear technology. A vivid firsthand view of how one of the twentieth century''s greatest minds responded to the greatest political challenges of his day, Einstein on Politics will forever change our picture of Einstein''s public activism and private motivations.

\"Is hydro-fracking really safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing really happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based, visual assessment of current thinking and research on eight different issues everybody''s arguing about. His lively storytelling approach incorporates comics, photographs, and diagrams to create substantive but easily accessible reportage. Cunningham''s distinctive illustrative style shows how information is manipulated by all sides; his easy-to-follow narratives allow readers to draw their own conclusions. A graphic milestone of investigative journalism!\"--Provided by publisher.

A provocative collection of letters to his longtime friend and translator that spans Einstein’s career and reveals the inner thoughts and daily life of a transformative genius From their early days as tutor and scholar discussing philosophy over Spartan dinners to their work together to publish Einstein’s books in Europe, in Maurice Solovine, Albert Einstein found both an engaged mind and a loyal friend. While Einstein frequently shared his observations on science, politics, philosophy, and religion in his correspondence with Solovine, he was just as likely to express his feelings about everyday life—his health and the effects of aging and his experiences in the various places where he settled and visited in his long career. The letters are both funny and frank, and taken together, reflect the changes—large and small—that took place over a half century and in the remarkable life of the world’s foremost scientist. Published in English alongside the German text and accompanied by facsimile copies of the original letters, the collected Letters to Solovine offers scholar and interested reader alike unprecedented access to the personal life of Albert Einstein. This authorized ebook features a new introduction by Neil Berger, PhD, and an illustrated biography of Albert Einstein, which includes rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The first publication of Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein''s lengthy itinerary consisted of stops in Hong Kong and Singapore, two brief stays in China, a six-week whirlwind lecture tour of Japan, a twelve-day tour of Palestine, and a three-week visit to Spain. This handsome edition makes available, for the first time, the complete journal that Einstein kept on this momentous journey. The telegraphic-style diary entries--quirky, succinct, and at times irreverent—record Einstein''s musings on science, philosophy, art, and politics, as well as his immediate impressions and broader thoughts on such events as his inaugural lecture at the future site of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a garden party hosted by the Japanese Empress, an audience with the King of Spain, and meetings with other prominent colleagues and statesmen. Entries also contain passages that reveal Einstein''s stereotyping of members of various nations and raise questions about his attitudes on race. This beautiful edition features stunning facsimiles of the diary''s pages, accompanied by an English translation, an extensive historical introduction, numerous illustrations, and annotations. Supplementary materials include letters, postcards, speeches, and articles, a map of the voyage, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index. Einstein would go on to keep a journal for all succeeding trips abroad, and this first volume of his travel diaries offers an initial, intimate glimpse into a brilliant mind encountering the great, wide world.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and for his services to Theoretical Physics . After his general theory of relativity was formulated in November 1915, Einstein became world famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his later years, his fame exceeded that of any other scientist in history, and in popular culture, Einstein has become a byword for great intelligence or even genius. Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific discovery. An individual of monumental intellectual achievement, he remains the most influential theoretical physicist of the modern era. Einstein`s reverence for all creation, his belief in the grandeur, beauty and sublimity of the universe (the primary source of inspiration in science), his awe for the scheme that is manifested in the material universe all of these show through in his work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.

This book presents eighteen essays on the life and career of Albert Einstein, scientist who was famous foremost for his theory of relativity.

The theory of relativity, explained by the greatest mind of the 20th century. Albert Einstein discusses the special and general theories of relativity, and the core concepts of modern cosmology, including time dilation, the spacetime continuum, and the energy-mass relationship, in simple non-mathematical terms.

Albert Einstein needs no introduction. He is known for the great marvels when it came to his area of expertise, that is, physics. The book, by Albert Einstein, talks about much debated and deliberated topic, Relativity. Einstein has presented a detailed descriptions and explanation of the concept which has won him most praise compared to any other concepts presented by him. Even though this book and the theories presented in it, where vehemently opposed on religious ground, but Einstein gave them a befitting reply that put an end to such attacks. Even though there had been more such backlashes that Einstein had to deal with in his tenure.

In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures available under the title The Meaning of Relativity, the first book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. As subsequent editions were brought out by the Press, Einstein included new material amplifying the theory. A revised version of the appendix \"Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field,\" added to the posthumous edition of 1956, was Einstein''s last scientific paper.

Brings together a compilation of the most important works by Albert Einstein, presenting his papers on the Theory of Relativity, quantum theory, statistical mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and other studies that transformed modern physics.

THE MEANING OF RELATIVITY FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BY ALBERT EINSTEINLecture ISpace and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics Lecture IIThe Theory of Special RelativityLecture IIIThe General Theory of RelativityLecture IVThe General Theory of Relativity (continued)The theory of relativity is intimately connected with the theory of space and time. I shall therefore begin with a brief investigation of the origin of our ideas of space and time, although in doing so I know that I introduce a controversial subject. The object of all science, whether natural science or psychology, is to co-ordinate our experiences and to bring them into a logical system. How are our customary ideas of space and time related to the character of our experiences?The experiences of an individual appear to us arranged in a series of events; in this series the single events which we remember appear to be ordered according to the criterion of \earlier\" and \later,\" which cannot be analyzed further. There exists, therefore, for the individual, an I-time, or subjective time. This in itself is not measurable. I can, indeed, associate numbers with the events, in such a way that a greater number is associated with the later event than with an earlier one; but the nature of this association may be quite arbitrary. This association I can define by means of a clock by comparing the order of events furnished by the clock with the order of the given series of events. We understand by a clock something which provides a series of events which can be counted, and which has other properties of which we shall speak later.These four lectures constituted an overview of his then controversial theory of relativity listen to Einstein go deeper into his famous General Theory of Relativity. A Must Read, Enjoy!

Albert Einstein; born 14 March 1879 and died 18 April 1955 was a German-born theoretical physicist. He produced the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of contemporary physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein''s work is also known for its impact on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best recognized by the people for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been called \"the world''s most famous equation\"). Albert earned the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics \"for his work on theoretical physics, and particularly for his identification of the law of the photoelectric effect,\" a crucial step in the unfolding of quantum theory. At the beginning of his career, Einstein reasoned that Newtonian mechanics was no longer sufficient to harmonize the laws of classical mechanics with the ones of the electromagnetic field. This conclusion led him to formulate his special theory of relativity while working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern (1902-1909), Switzerland. He recognized, however, that the principle of relativity could also encompass the gravitational fields, resulting in his consequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he wrote a paper on general relativity. Einstein continued to deal with dilemmas of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, that led to his explanations of particle theory and the movement of molecules. He also examined the thermal properties of light that laid the grounds for the photon theory of light. In 1917, Albert applied the general theory of relativity to model the large-scale structure of the universe. Between 1895 and 1914 while he lived in Switzerland (except for one year in Prague, 1911-12), where he earned his academic diploma from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich in 1900. He later stays to teach there at the same institute as a professor of theoretical physics between 1912 and 1914 then he left for Berlin. In 1901, after being stateless for more than five years, Albert acquired Swiss citizenship, which he kept for the rest of his life. In 1905, Albert was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich. The same year, his annus mirabilis (miracle year), during he published four groundbreaking papers, which brought him to the eyes of the academic world, at only the age of 26. Einstein was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and, being from Jewish assent, did not return to Germany, where he was a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Albert settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he endorsed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt informing him to the potential development of \"potent bombs of a new type\" and urging that the U.S. begin comparable research, which led to the Manhattan Project. Albert supported defending the Allied forces but denounced the idea of using the discovered nuclear fission as a weapon. Next, together with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, he signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto highlighting the danger of nuclear weapons. Albert was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955. Einstein wrote 300-plus scientific papers and more than 150 non-scientific works. Albert''s intellectual achievements and originality have made the word \"Einstein\" synonymous with \"genius.\"

Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and this supplementary paperback volume presents the English translations of all non-English materials. This translation does not include notes or annotation of the documentary volume and is not intended for use without the original language documentary edition which provides the extensive editorial commentary necessary for a full historical and scientific understanding of the documents.

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind''s understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his remarkable achievements. In the same year he travelled to the United States to give four lectures that consolidated his theory and sought to explain its meaning to a new audience. These lectures were published the following year as The Meaning of Relativity, which he revised with each new edition until his death. It remains a key work for anyone wishing to discover at first hand the workings of one of the most inspiring minds of the twentieth century.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Relativity: the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein \"According to Einstein himself, this book is intended \"\"to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.\"\" When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein''s name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his masterpiece, The General Theory of Relativity--which provided a brand-new theory of gravity and promised a new perspective on the cosmos as a whole--he set out at once to share his excitement with as wide a public as possible in this popular and accessible book.\"

Einstein''s classic work explaining his theories of relativity and gravitation to the non specialist.

Theory of Relativity: The Foundation by Albert Einstein. The theory which is sketched in the following pages forms the most wide-going generalization conceivable of what is at present known as \"the theory of Relativity;\" this latter theory I differentiate from the former \"Special Relativity theory,\" and suppose it to be known. The generalization of the Relativity theory has been made much easier through the form given to the special Relativity theory by Minkowski, which mathematician was the first to recognize clearly the formal equivalence of the space like and time-like co-ordinates, and who made use of it in the building up of the theory. The mathematical apparatus useful for the general relativity theory, lay already complete in the \"Absolute Differential Calculus,\" which were based on the researches of GAUSS, RIEMANN and CHRISTOFFEL on the non-Euclidean manifold, and which have been shaped into a system by RICCI and LEVI-CIVITA, and already applied to the problems of theoretical physics.

How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math. This book is not a casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics, it will prove a stimulating read. \"The present book is intended,\" Einstein wrote in 1916, \"as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.\"

Einstein was not just the greatest scientist of his generation: he was also a deeply humane thinker concerned with issues and events affecting the world through all the spectra of experience. Frequently lauded for his remarkable breakthroughs in physics and little-known for anything else, the man behind the hair was a prolific writer. Included here are his thoughts on freedom, international security, Zionism, morals and the atomic threat to world peace.

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Five early papers evolve theory that won Einstein a Nobel Prize: \"Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat\"; \"On the Theory of the Brownian Movement\"; \"A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions\"; \"Theoretical Observations on the Brownian Motion\"; and \"Elementary Theory of the Brownian Motion.\"

A lively collection of Einstein''s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters on Wave Mechanics, the correspondence between H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Erwin Schr dinger, and Albert Einstein. These remarkable letters illuminate not only the basis of Schr dinger''s work in wave mechanics, but also how great scientific minds debated and challenged the ever-changing theories of the day and ultimately embraced an elegant solution to the riddles of quantum theory. Their collected correspondence offers insight into both the personalities and professional aspirations that played a part in this theoretical breakthrough. This authorized Philosophical Library book features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. \"You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees that one cannot get around the assumption of reality-if only one is honest. Most of them simply do not see what sort of risky game they are playing with reality-reality as something independent of what is experimentally established.\" -Albert Einstein to Erwin Schr dinger \"I am as convinced as ever that the wave representation of matter is an incomplete representation of the state of affairs, no matter how practically useful it has proved itself to be.\" -Albert Einstein to Erwin Schr dinger Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1934. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics, and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the atomic age.