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THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF
Albert Einstein
volume 8 THE BERLIN YEARS: CORRESPONDENCE, 1914-1918
This volume opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half years later. A good portion of the documentation, which comprises more than 675 letters, has only recently been discovered by the editors. The letters touch on all aspects of Einstein's activities and shed new light on his inner life, while enriching our understanding of his published papers, presented in volumes 6 and 7 of this series.
The breakup of Einstein's first marriage and the divorce are presented here for the first time in all their complexity. New material shows Einstein withholding true political commitment while maintaining a strong sense of responsibility to an international republic of letters. The scientific correspondence of this period... Tovább

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I'M
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THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF
Albert Einstein
volume 8 THE BERLIN YEARS: CORRESPONDENCE, 1914-1918
This volume opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half years later. A good portion of the documentation, which comprises more than 675 letters, has only recently been discovered by the editors. The letters touch on all aspects of Einstein's activities and shed new light on his inner life, while enriching our understanding of his published papers, presented in volumes 6 and 7 of this series.
The breakup of Einstein's first marriage and the divorce are presented here for the first time in all their complexity. New material shows Einstein withholding true political commitment while maintaining a strong sense of responsibility to an international republic of letters. The scientific correspondence of this period documents Einstein's struggle to find satisfactory field equations for his new gravitational theory—the general theory of relativity—and his continued discussion with leading physicists and mathematicians about the implications and further development of the theory. This volume also shows that, despite his preoccupation with relativity, Einstein did not lose interest in other subjects. Discussion on quantum theory and Nemst's heat theorem, for instance, produced new insights and led to important publications.
Robert Schulmann teaches modem German history at Boston University; A. J. Kox teaches history of science at the University of Amsterdam; Michel Janssen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University; József Illy is a former Member of the Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Jacket illustration: Fritz Haber and Einstein, Berlin, ca. 1914. (Courtesy Arcliiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Beriin) Vissza