Einstein on Einstein

"Einstein begins his Autobiographical Notes with one problem he never quite solved: 'What, precisely, is thinking?' ... In this book, Autobiographical Notes is accompanied by introductions, essays, and commentary by Hanoch Gutfreud and Jèurgen Renn, who draw on biographical information, written correspondence, and their knowledge of Einstein scholarship to render these difficult texts accessible to readers. They have also collected critical writings by Einstein's contemporaries alongside Einstein's own responses to these interlocutors, as well as Einstein's Autobiographical Sketch, composed just before his death in 1955, which is published for the first time in English"--

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Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn

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New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt 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 d

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"The opportunity to read Einstein’s musings, interpreted by two current leaders in Einstein studies, is valuable to all interested in the history or philosophy of physics as well as in Einstein himself."---Jay Paschoff, The Key Reporter

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• Authors: Hanoch Gutfreund, Gutfreund Hanoch, Jurgen Renn, Jürgen Renn, Jurgen Gutfreund Renn
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780691183602
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18360-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History of Ideas, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / General, HISTORY / Social History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Physics, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine