Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: (vol 7)* Translated by Alfred Engel, Princeton University Press, £29.95, ISBN 0691057184 Reviewed by Graham Farmelo
THANK goodness Einstein didn’t have email, I thought, as I browsed through this latest volume of his collected papers, in English translation. We would have lost an immense amount of detail.
Volume 7 covers the three years after the First World War, when Einstein’s genius was still in full flower and he was becoming a global celebrity. Strongly featured are wonderfully clear expositions of relativity, comments on patent applications and papers that document his emerging Zionism and reaction to…
