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Ray Monk, 23 July 2026
Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein
by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D. Gordin.
Oxford, 142 pp., £14.99, August 2025,978 0 19 767819 0 Show More
by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D. Gordin.
Oxford, 142 pp., £14.99, August 2025,
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings
edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer.
Princeton, 540 pp., £30, November 2025,978 0 691 13107 8 Show More
edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer.
Princeton, 540 pp., £30, November 2025,
The Essential Einstein: Public Writings
edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer.
Princeton, 384 pp., £30, November 2025,978 0 691 13110 8 Show More
edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer.
Princeton, 384 pp., £30, November 2025,
“... Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?’ Albert Einstein’s question, quoted in the New York Times in 1944, acknowledges the great mystery of his celebrity. He was a popular, instantly recognisable figure during his lifetime, and has remained so more than seventy years after his death. Yet the theory of relativity, the work for which he is best known, is still, more than a hundred years after its formulation, beyond the grasp of all but a tiny minority ... ”
