Einstein Exhibit -- Books by and about Einstein

Compiled by David Cassidy [updated Feb. 2006]

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Books for Elementary and Middle-School Students

Calaprice, Alice, ed. Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Goldenstern, Joyce. Albert Einstein: Physicist and Genius. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.

Ireland, Karin. Albert Einstein. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Silver Burdett Press, 1989.

Macdonald, Fiona. Albert Einstein: Genius behind the Theory of Relativity. Woodbridge, Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 2000.

Parker, Steve. Albert Einstein and Relativity. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

Stannard, Russell. Black Holes and Uncle Albert. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.

Stannard, Russell. The Time and Space of Uncle Albert. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.

Stannard, Russell. Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest. London: Faber and Faber, 1995.

Wishinsky, Frieda. What's the Matter with Albert? A Story of Albert Einstein. Toronto: Maple Tree Press, 2002.

Books for a General Audience

Cassidy, David C. Einstein and Our World. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2nd edition, 2004.

Fölsing, Albrecht. Albert Einstein: A Biography. Ewald Osers, transl. New York: Viking, 1997. *The most complete and up-to-date biography (except for the science).

Frank, Philipp. Einstein: His Life and Times. George Rosen, transl. New York: Da Capo Press, 1947; 2002.

Friedman, Alan J. and Carol C. Donley. Einstein as Myth and Muse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Galison, Peter. Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

Hoffmann, Banesh, with the collaboration of Helen Dukas. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel . New York: Plume Books, 1988.

Holton, Gerald. Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. *Essays by the author on Einstein and related topics.

Jammer, Max. Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Lightman, Alan P. Einstein's Dreams. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. *Inspired combination of fact and poetic fiction.

Pais, Abraham. Einstein Lived Here: Essays for the Layman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sayen, Jamie. Einstein in America: The Scientist's Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima. New York: Crown, 1985. *An insightful account.

Stern, Fritz. Einstein's German World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Baierlein, Ralph. Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light, An Excursion to the Wave-Particle Duality and the Special Theory of Relativity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905. New York: Copernicus Books, 2006

Bodanis, David. E=mc² : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation. New York: Walker, 2000.

Calaprice, Alice. The Einstein Almanac. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. *Mainly a chronology and brief commentaries on his scientific papers.

Calder, Nigel. Einstein's Universe: A Guide to the Theory of Relativity. New York: Viking Press, 1979. Reissued Penguin, 2005.

Crelinsten , Jeffrey. Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. [1919 eclipse and after] Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Gamow, George. Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Gribbin, Mary, and John Gribbin. Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity. New York: Chamberlain Brothers, 2005.

Kaku, Michio. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. New York: Atlas Books, 2004.

Rigden, John. Einstein 1905. The Standard of Greatness. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 205. *A compact and lucid account of what happened during the "Miracle Year" of scientific discovery.

Schwartz, Joseph. Einstein for Beginners. Illus. by Michael McGuinness. New York : Pantheon Books, 2003.

White, Michael and John Gribbin. Einstein: A Life in Science. New York : Dutton, 1994.

Photographs

Cahn, William. Einstein: A Pictorial Biography. New York: Citadel Press, 1955.

Sugimoto, Kenji. Albert Einstein: A Photographic Biography. New York: Schocken Books, 1989.

Warnow, Joan N., and the American Institute of Physics. Images of Einstein: A Catalog . New York: American Institute of Physics, 1979.

Einstein In His Own Words

Albert Einstein: The Human Side. New Glimpses from His Archives. Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Autobiographical Notes: A Centennial Edition. Paul Arthur Schlipp, ed. and transl. LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1996.

Einstein on Peace. Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden, eds. and transl. New York: Crown, 1988. *Collection of Einstein's statements (with commentary) on war, peace, and social affairs.

The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta (with Leopold Infeld). New York: Free Press, 1938; 1967. *A very readable yet often overlooked nontechnical summary of the physics and its origins.

The New Quotable Einstein. Alice Calaprice and Freeman J. Dyson, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. *Find out if he really said that, and where.

Ideas and Opinions. Sonja Bargmann, new transl. New York: Modern Library, 1994.

Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed through His Own Words . New York: Wings Books of Random House, 1993.

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. Robert W. Lawson, transl. New York: Pi Press, 2005. *Introduction by Roger Penrose, commentary by Robert Geroch and David Cassidy. Challenging.

Books for Deeper Study

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Multiple volumes, John Stachel et al., eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987-. *Einstein's complete writings in the original languages with scholarly annotation in English. Project still in progress.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein [English translation]. Multiple volumes, Anna Beck, transl., Peter Havas, consultant. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987-. *"Pony" translation of the papers, without the scholarly annotation.

Einstein's Miraculous Year : Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics. John Stachel, ed., assisted by Trevor Lipscombe, Alice Calaprice, and Sam Elworthy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. *The great 1905 papers, translated and explained.

Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement. R. Fürth, ed., A. D. Cowper, transl. New York: Dover Publications, 1956. *The papers on Brownian motion, translated and annotated.

Besso, Michele. Correspondance 1903-1955. German with parallel French translation by Pierre Speziali. Paris: Hermann, 1972.

Born, Hedwig and Max. The Born-Einstein Letters. Irene Born, transl., Max Born, commentary. London: Macmillan Press, 1971. For the complete original see: Briefwechsel 1916-1955. Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1969.

Maric', Mileva. The Love Letters. Jürgen Renn and Robert Schulmann, eds., Shawn Smith, transl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. *Technical as well as personal contents.

Schrödinger, Planck, Lorentz. Letters on Wave Mechanics. Karl Przibram, ed., Martin J. Klein, transl. New York: Philosophical Library, 1967.

Sommerfeld, Arnold. Briefwechsel : 60 Briefe aus dem goldenen Zeitalter der modernen Physik . Armin Hermann, ed. Basel: Schwabe, 1968.

Feynman, Richard. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Fine, Arthur. The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. *Philosophical aspects of quantum mechanics.

Goldberg, Stanley. Understanding Relativity: Origin and Impact of a Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Birkhäuser, 1984.

Kerszberg, Pierre. The Invented Universe: The Einstein-De Sitter Controversy (1916-17) and the Rise of Relativistic Cosmology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Kuhn, Thomas. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. *An important but highly technical study, arguing Einstein's central contribution to the origins of quantum theory.

Miller, Arthur I. Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation, 1905-1911. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Miller, Arthur I. Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc. New York : Basic Books, 2001.

Pais, Abraham. Subtle is the Lord...: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Pyenson, Lewis. The Young Einstein: The Advent of Relativity. Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985.

Stachel, John. Einstein from "B" to "Z". Boston: Birkhäuser, 2002. *Essays on Einstein.

Whitaker, Andrew. Einstein, Bohr, and the Quantum Dilemma. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Earman, John et al., eds. The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1993.

Eisenstaedt, Jean and A. J. Kox, eds. Studies in the History of General Relativity. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1992.

French, A. P., ed. Einstein: A Centenary Volume. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. *Fine illustrations and essays.

Holton, Gerald and Yehuda Elkana, eds. Albert Einstein, Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. *An outstanding collection of essays.

Howard, Don and John Stachel, eds. Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879-1909. Boston : Birkhäuser, 2000.

Ryan, Dennis P., ed. Einstein and the Humanities. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. *A unique collection of essays about Einstein's influence on the humanities.

Schilpp, Paul Arthur, ed. Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. 2 vols. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1949; 1988. *A classic collection of essays by leading figures.

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Books for Elementary and Middle-School Students

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Photographs

Einstein In His Own Words

Books for Deeper Study