


Hardcover
Published: 13th October 1993
ISBN: 9780691033228
Number Of Pages: 784
This volume, the first in the series to be devoted to Einstein's correspondence, begins in June 1902, when he went to work at the Swiss Patent Office. It closes in March 1914, as Einstein left Switzerland to take up his appointment as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The great majority of the more than 500 letters from and to Einstein presented here have not been published before, and some of them will be new even to most Einstein scholars. They give us a much richer picture of Einstein in his twenties and early thirties than we have ever had. We see him through his correspondence with his mother, his wife Mileva, and, from 1912 on, his cousin Elsa, who would later become his second wife. He maintains close ties with old friends, but his circle widens, particularly after 1906, to include a number of his contemporaries in physics such as Max Laue and Paul Ehrenfest. He also develops important relationships with older theorists--Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld, and especially H. A. Lorentz.
The letters in this volume clarify the development of his academic career once he leaves the Patent Office in 1909, and bring out the important parts played by such staunch supporters of Einstein as Alfred Kleiner, Fritz Haber, and, above all, Walther Nernst.
Most significant, however, is the way the letters document crucial aspects of Einstein's scientific activity: his concentration for years on the unfathomable problems of quanta and radiation, his extensive knowledge of experimental physics, his many fruitful interactions with experimentalists, and finally his long struggle to generalize the 1905 theory of relativity to include gravitation and accelerated frames of reference.
List of Texts xi | |
List of Illustrations xxix | |
Introductory Material Introduction to Volume 5 xxxi | |
Supplement to the Editorial Method in Previous Volumes xxxix | |
Acknowledgments xliii | |
Note on the Translation xlv | |
List of Location Symbols xlvi | |
List of Descriptive Symbols xlix | |
Texts 3 Vol. 1, 34a. To Pauline Winteler, 21 May 1897* Vol. 1, 48a | |
To Rosa Winteler, August 1899* Vol. 1, 98a | |
To Carl Paalzow, 12 April 1901* | |
To Mileva Maric, 28 June 1902 or later | |
To Hans Wohlwend, 15 August-3 October 1902 | |
Dedication, Einstein as Member of the Olympia Academy, 1903, including Translation | |
Marriage Certificate, 6 January 1903 | |
To Michele Besso, 22? January 1903 | |
From Michele Besso, 7-11 February 1903 | |
To Michele Besso, 17 March 1903 | |
To Helene Savic, ca. 20 March 1903 | |
From Emma Ehrat-Uuml;hlinger, 22 March 1903 | |
To Emma Ehrat-Uuml;hlinger, last week of March 1903 | |
To Jakob Ehrat, last week of March 1903 | |
From Mileva Einstein-Maric, 27 August 1903 | |
To Mileva Einstein-Maric, 19? September 1903 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 3 October 1903 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 30 November 1903 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 20 February 1904 | |
To Marcel Grossmann, 6? April 1904 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 15 April 1904 | |
To Helene and Milivoj Saviacute;, 15 May 1904 | |
To Mileva Einstein-Maric, 25 July 1904 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 1 August 1904 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 6 August 1904 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 6 August 1904 * This document was discovered after the publication of Volume One | |
From the Swiss Patent Office, 20 September 1904 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 6 March 1905 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 6 March 1905 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 18 or 25 May 1905 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 30 June-22 September 1905 | |
To Rudolf Martin, 20 July 1905 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 20 July 1905-summer 1915 | |
Expert Opinion by Alfred Kleiner and Heinrich Burkhardt on Einstein's Dissertation, 22-23 July 1905 | |
To Philipp Lenard, 16 November 1905 | |
From Josef Zametzer, 7 January 1906 | |
From the Swiss Patent Office, 13 March 1906 | |
To the Bern Municipal Gas and Water Works, 23 April 1906 | |
To Maurice Solovine, 27 April 1906 | |
From Max Laue, 2 June 1906 | |
To the Bern Municipal Gas and Water Works, 6 June 1906 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 27 July 1906 | |
From Wilhelm Rouml;ntgen, 18 September 1906 | |
To Jost Winteler, 3 November 1906 | |
To Helene and Milivoj Savic, December 1906? | |
To Alfred Schnauder, 5 January-11 May 1907 | |
To Jost Winteler, 7 February 1907 | |
To Johannes Stark, 13 April 1907 | |
To the Department of Education, Canton of Bern, 17 June 1907 | |
From Max Planck, 6 July 1907 Editorial Note: Einstein's "Maschinchen " for the Measurement of Small Quantities of Electricity | |
To Conrad and Paul Habicht, 15 July 1907 Editorial Note: Einstein on Superluminal Signal Velocities | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 23 July 1907 | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 25 July 1907 | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 29 July 1907 | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 7 August 1907 | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 11 August 1907 | |
To Paul and Conrad Habicht, 16 August 1907 | |
To Wilhelm Wien, 26 August 1907 | |
To Conrad and Paul Habicht, 2 September 1907 | |
From Max Laue, 4 September 1907 | |
To Johannes Stark, 25 September 1907 | |
From the B. G. Teubner Publishing House, 3 October 1907 | |
From Johannes Stark, 4 October 1907 | |
To Johannes Stark, 7 October 1907 | |
From Hermann Minkowski, 9 October 1907 | |
To Johannes Stark, 1 November 1907 | |
From Max Planck, 9 November 1907 | |
From Richard Lorenz, 15 November 1907 | |
To Johannes Stark, 7 December 1907 | |
Swiss Patent Office Letter on the AEG Alternating Current Machine, 11 December 1907 | |
To Rudolf Ladenburg, 20 December 1907 | |
To Conrad Habicht, 24 December 1907 | |
From Max Laue, 27 December 1907<b | |
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ISBN: 9780691033228
ISBN-10: 0691033226
Series: Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Hardcover) : Book 5
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
OTH
Number Of Pages: 784
Published: 13th October 1993
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 26.09 x 19.96
x 4.85
Weight (kg): 1.75