Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbilt and Other Sources (Modern Library ISBN series)

EINSTEIN, Albert

ISBN 10: 0679601058 / ISBN 13: 9780679601050

Edité par The Modern Library / Random House, New York, 1994

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A Modern Library edition of writings by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Born in Germany and educated in Switzerland, Einstein settled in the United States during World War II. He is probably best known for his theories of the photoelectric effect and of relativity. Einstein described his life as being ". . .divided between politics and equations." This work based on "Mein Weltbilt" and other sources, translated by Sonja Bargmann. With an introduction by Alan Lightman. --- In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer device to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r with author black and white photographic portrait on cover and spine, verso lists titles in ML catalog. --- A bright, clean, unmarked copy lacking damages. Bright, unclipped jacket ($18.95/$26.95) with slight back panel rubbing but without other damage; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xix, 418, [4] pages.

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• Titre: Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbilt and Other Sources (Modern Library ISBN series)
• Éditeur: The Modern Library / Random House, New York
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679601058
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679601050
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good+

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

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Albert Einstein (1879–1955), one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, was born in Ulm, Germany, to German-Jewish parents. He published his first great theories in Switzerland in the early 1900s while working as a patent clerk.

Alan Lightman is the author of six novels, including Einstein’s Dreams, which was an international bestseller, and The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of three collections of essays and several books on science. His latest work is the memoir of his family, Screening Room. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Nature, among other publications. Since beginning his career as a theoretical physicist, Lightman has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and in the humanities. He lives in the Boston area.