Einstein in Bohemia
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    [synopsis] => "A pleasure to read. This is a lovely book-highly original, meticulously researched, elegantly written, and full of surprises. Einstein in Bohemia is a richly textured, multilayered inquiry that ranges freely across many boundaries."-Derek Sayer, author of Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History "This engaging and beautifully written account of Einstein's often ignored time in Prague is a tour de force. Drawing on prodigious research, Gordin insightfully depicts Prague's intellectual, social, and political milieu and its long-term impact on Einstein's research, his friendships, and his thinking about nationalism and Jewish identity."-Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota "This beautifully written double biography of Albert Einstein and the city of Prague is a wonderfully creative historical work that yields important new insights. Michael Gordin enables us to understand Einstein's time in Prague as it was lived and perceived by the physicist and his contemporaries. The scholarship is superb."-Diana Kormos Buchwald, director and general editor of the Einstein Papers Project "In Michael Gordin's erudite hands, a seemingly minor episode in Einstein's life becomes a window onto the milieu in which the physicist's most extraordinary work, the theory of general relativity, began to emerge. Einstein in Bohemia serves up a deliciously rich slice of history, offering a portrait of one of the great capitals of the Western world and a fresh perspective on the greatest scientist of the modern age."-Philip Ball, author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different "With unrivaled erudition, Michael Gordin skillfully guides his reader through the streets of Prague and through Einstein's attempts at creating a general theory of relativity. This wonderfully written book masterfully demonstrates the relationship between place, identification, and physical theory during the early twentieth century."-Myles W. Jackson, Institute for Advanced Study "Using Einstein's sojourn in Prague as a scarlet thread, Michael Gordin guides us expertly through the labyrinth of physics, philosophy, and politics during the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century. The result is an enthralling meditation on national and religious identity, the power of people and place, and the nature of history and myth."-Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Michael D. Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table and Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (both Princeton). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Twitter @GordinMichael "Einstein in Bohemia is a sparkling, sensitive, and resonant story about the relationship between people, places, times, and ideas. A learned delight."-Steven Shapin, coauthor of Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life "Through extensive primary sources, Gordin explores the effect that Prague's rich history infused into Einstein's life, and the way that Einstein made his own significant mark on Bohemia's story."---Alden Hunt, Princeton Alumni Weekly "Meticulous in scholarship and erudite in tone . . . [Einstein in Bohemia] will doubtless become an essential reference for anyone researching what has usually been seen as a minor chapter in Einstein's life."---Andrew Crumey, Wall Street Journal "[A] deeply researched, wide-ranging and original book."---Andrew Robinson, Physics World "Einstein in Bohemia is as much a series of essays on historical method and memory as it is a biography that uses Einsteinian ideas about perspective and spacetime to riff about the relationship between past and present, space and place. It's also very much a book about Prague. It works in movements, looking backward and forward from Einstein's Bohemian interl
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