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|Named Person:||Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein|
|Material Type:||Biography, Internet resource|
|Document Type:||Book, Internet Resource|
|All Authors / Contributors:||
Albert Einstein; Alice Calaprice
|Description:||xxxiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm|
|Contents:||Foreword / Freeman Dyson --
Einstein Family Tree --
On Einstein Himself --
On America and Americans --
On Death --
On Education and Academic Freedom --
On Family --
On Friends, Specific Scientists, and Others --
On Germans and Germany --
On Humankind --
On Jews, Israel, Judaism, Zionism --
On Life --
On Pacifism --
On Peace, War, the Bomb, and the Military --
On Politics, Patriotism, and Government --
On Religion, God, and Philosophy --
On Science and Scientists, Mathematics, and Technology --
On Miscellaneous Subjects --
Attributed to Einstein --
Others on Einstein --
Answers to the Most Common Nonscientific Questions about Einstein.
|Responsibility:||collected and edited by Alice Calaprice ; with a foreword by Freeman Dyson.|
Love and marriage, music, and pets. There is something to please everyone - and something to offend everyone. Also included are sections on what Einstein has said about other famous people, what others have said about him, a chronology containing biographical data, an updated family tree that includes great-great-grandchildren, answers to the most common questions about Einstein, and a selected bibliography. The book includes an engaging foreword by Princeton physicist.
Freeman Dyson. To help the reader or researcher, two indexes are provided. The Index of Key Words will help readers find familiar quotations, and the Subject Index will lead them to subjects of particular interest. The book provides documentation, generally to primary sources such as the Einstein Archive and The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.