Book ID: CBB457502621

Einstein in Bohemia (2020)

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Gordin, Michael D. (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 360
Language: English

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia is a spellbinding portrait of the city that touched Einstein's life in unexpected ways―and of the gifted young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and politics of Prague.Michael Gordin's narrative is a masterfully crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a specific moment in time. Despite being heir to almost a millennium of history, Einstein's Prague was a relatively marginal city within the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yet Prague, its history, and its multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein's personal and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other important figures.Einstein in Bohemia sheds light on this transformative period of Einstein's life and career, and brings vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Authors & Contributors
Bečvář, Jindřich
Bečvářová, Martina
Blackmore, John T.
Dirks, Christian
Domosławski, Zbigniew
Einstein, Albert
Journals
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Archiwum Historii i Filozofii Medycyny
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
HOPOS
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Sentinel Open Press
Springer
Concepts
Science and society
Biographies
Physics
Philosophy of science
Mathematics
Jewish civilization and culture
People
Einstein, Albert
Frank, Philipp
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Mach, Ernst
Mises, Richard von
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Prague (Czechia)
Bohemia
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Africa
Brazil
Institutions
Uniwersytet Jagielloński (Cracow)
Univerzita Karlova
Vienna Circle
Universität Wien
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