Albert Einstein: The Human Side - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691082316 ISBN 13: 9780691082318

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1979

Synopsis

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker, who asked whether he believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, and exchange about fine music with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism are but some of the highlights found in this rare, warm enriching book.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, German

Review:

"[This book] presents itself in such a modest and loving tone that it is fitting for the memory of the man it lets us hear. It is a fresh and delicious little anthology of citations from the body of Einstein's letters, journal entries and other written comment.... These varied, penetrating, warm and open remarks to queens and schoolchildren, friends and antagonists, philosophers and sophomores have been sensitively chosen by two old friends of Einstein's and well translated. The German originals are included." (Scientific American)

"[This book] compiled by two of his closest colleagues in later life, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, aims to show what kind of a person Einstein was. By a series of quotations from letters, jottings and unpublished documents, for example, Dukas and Hoffmann demonstrate as clearly as anybody could expect that Einstein was a courteous, kindly, witty, fearless and lonely man.... It is a bedside book." (Washington Post Book World)

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0691082316
• ISBN 13: 9780691082318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 167
• Editor: Helen Dukas, Banesh Hoffmann