Albert Einstein, The Human Side
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[This book] compiled by two of his closest colleagues in later life, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, aims to show what kind of a person Einstein was. By a series of quotations from letters, jottings and unpublished documents, for example, Dukas and Hoffmann demonstrate as clearly as anybody could expect that Einstein was a courteous, kindly, witty, fearless and lonely man.... It is a bedside book.
Book Description
Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker, who asked whether he believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, and exchange about fine music with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism are but some of the highlights found in this rare, warm enriching book.
Albert Einstein, The Human Side,Albert Einstein,Banesh Hoffman,Helen Dukas,Princeton University Press,0691023689,1879-1955,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Correspondence,Einstein, Albert,,General,Physicists,Physics,Relativity,Science,Science/Mathematics,History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science,Science / Physics
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