Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Human Side Albert Einstein: The Man Beyond the Myth Albert Einstein Albert Einstein: (1879-1955) The Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric: A Collaboration that Failed to Develop Einstein's Jewish Identity Einstein on Civil Liberty Einstein and the "Research Passion" Part II: Editing the Einstein Papers "A Man of My Type"---Editing the Einstein Papers Introduction to the Guide to the Duplicate Einstein Archive and Control Index Part III: Surveys of Einstein's Work Introduction to Einstein: The Formative Years The Other Einstein: Einstein Contra Field Theory Part IV: Special Relativity "What Song the Syrens Sang": How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity? Einstein and Ether Drift Experiments Einstein and Michelson: The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification Einstein on the Theory of Relativity Einstein's First Derivation of Mass--Energy Equivalence Part V: General Relativity Einstein's Odyssey: His Journey from Special to General Relativity The Genesis of General Relativity The Rigidly Rotating Disk as the "Missing Link" in the History of General Relativity The First Two Acts How Einstein Discovered General Relativity: A Historical Tale with Some Contemporary Morals Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912-1915 Belated Decision in the Hilbert--Einstein Priority Dispute The Origin of Gravitational Lensing: A Postcript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper New Light on the Einstein--Hilbert Priority Question Part VI: Quantum Theory Einstein and the Quantum: Fifty Years of Struggle Einstein and Quantum Mechanics Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis, or Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier? Part VII: Einstein and Others Einstein and Newton Eddington and Einstein Einstein and Infeld: Seen through their Correspondence Lanczos's Early Contributions to Relativity and His Relationship with Einstein Einstein and Bose Einstein and 'Zweistein' Part VIII: Book Reviews 'Subtle is the Lord' ... The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais Albert Einstein: A Biography by Albert Folsing

Reviews

"This book is really a collection of essays on Einstein's life and, as the title suggests, does not try to offer a complete picture of the great man. The essays are independent so you can read them in any order and, indeed, I found it easier to read them by looking at the essay titles and choosing the one that caught my eye. ...It is clear that this is a very well researched book by a man who has written about Einstein and his work for over forty years and is the current Director of the Boston University Centre for Einstein Studies. The book does manage to paint a human picture of Einstein rather than try to build on the popular legend and there is no doubt that it will be used by historians as well as mathematicians and natural scientists as one of the most reliable studies of the man. It is the sort of book that one would expect to find in the library of all schools and universities." --The Mathematical Gazette "This welcome addition to the Einstein Studies book series presents a collection of selected articles and talks on Albert Einstein prepared over the past 25 years by John Stachel, the founding editor of the Collected Works of Albert Einstein. ...The articles selected survey the subject from different angles without going into too much technical detail, which makes them accessible to a wide audience of readers. ...The present volume can be recommended as a brief introduction into the life and work of Einstein. Thanks to sensibly provided annotations and references, it may also serve well as a departure point for deeper studies." --Zentralblatt Math