Einstein Lived Here by Abraham Pais

Einstein Lived Here



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Einstein Lived Here Abraham Pais
Language: English
Page: 301
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0198539940, 9780198539940
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

From Publishers Weekly

These 11 essays, articles and pastiches of interviews are assembled by a physicist who is arguably Einstein's best interpreter; his biography of Einstein (1879-1955), Subtle Is the Lord , won the American Book Award in 1983. Pais's rigidly organized approach in that book served Einstein's science well but constricted the various, random views of "Einstein the man" collected here. Several of the essays have an unedited, dictated quality; many of the articles appeared in American Scientist in the late 1980s; two sections are reprinted from Subtle Is the Lord . A charming three-page selection, "Dear Dr. Einstein," contains letters addressing the scientist as though he were Ann Landers. The great figure in 20th century science that Pais depicts here seems more his own personal icon than Einstein the man. Photos. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Both these books deal with aspects of Einstein's personal life. Pais does so in a series of thoughtful essays, including one on Einstein's illegitimate daughter and first marriage to a woman to whom he gives some credit for contributing to Einstein's relativity theory. Other topics include Einstein's interactions with various colleagues, a lay reader's interpretation of relativity theory, and, in the longest essay, an analysis of the press coverage from 1902 to 1955 that created our image of Einstein. (Two of the 11 essays appeared earlier in Pais's Subtle Is the Lord, LJ 8/82.) Highfield and Carter employ a more traditional chronological structure, but their treatment is far from traditional. Using much the same data found in Pais's work and in Michael White and John Gribben's Einstein: A Life in Science (LJ 3/1/94), they suggest that Einstein "was a man whose combination of intellectual vision and emotional myopia left behind him a series of damaged lives." At a minimum, these included his first wife, his illegitimate daughter, his two sons, and their offspring. The suggestions and innuendoes throughout the book are more typical of the tabloids than credible nonfiction. And, indeed, the two authors are newspaper editors-with the British Daily Telegraph and Daily Express, respectively. Because their account is not balanced, The Private Lives of Albert Einstein is an optional purchase. If acquired, it should be balanced by other available treatments like that of Pais.Hilary D. Burton, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, Cal.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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