Einstein on Einstein

Download or read book Einstein on Einstein written by Hanoch Gutfreund and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Einstein begins his Autobiographical Notes with one problem he never quite solved: 'What, precisely, is thinking?' ... In this book, Autobiographical Notes is accompanied by introductions, essays, and commentary by Hanoch Gutfreud and Jèurgen Renn, who draw on biographical information, written correspondence, and their knowledge of Einstein scholarship to render these difficult texts accessible to readers. They have also collected critical writings by Einstein's contemporaries alongside Einstein's own responses to these interlocutors, as well as Einstein's Autobiographical Sketch, composed just before his death in 1955, which is published for the first time in English"--