The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

by Einstein, Albert; Stachel, John

• ISBN13: 9780691084077
• ISBN10: 0691084076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with other previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth. The documents in the volume also foreshadow the emergence of his extraordinary creative power. In them is manifested his intense commitment to scientific work and his interest in certain themes that proved to be central to his thinking during the next decade. We can follow, for example, the beginnings of his preoccupation with the electrodynamics of moving bodies that was to lead to the development of this special theory of relativity. For the first time it can be seen how closely he followed such contemporary developments in physics as Planck's work on radiation theory and Drude's work on the electron theory of metals. In addition to all of Einstein's known correspondence and other writings from this period, the volume includes the relevant portions of all third-party letters and other contemporary documents that provide additional information about his secondary schooling at the Aargau Cantonal School; his four years at the Swiss Federal Plytechnical School, or the ETH; and his search for a job after graduation. Included in the volume are those sections of an unpublished biography by Einstein's sister, Maja Winteler-Einstein, which deal with his early years; his extensive notes on a physics course he took at the ETH; and previously unpublished photographs of the young Einstein and his teachers and friends. Documents in Volume 1 portray Einstein's experiences during the two stressful years after his graduation from the ETH in Zurich. Denied a position as an Assistant at the ETH, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence while he looked for a post at other universities; then he attempted to find a secondary-school post, and finally sought a nonacademic job. Tension with his parents over his plans to marry Mileva Maric is evident throughout this period. With the help of a friend, he finally found work at the Swiss Patent Office, the haven where he would spend the next seven years. Freed from his financial worries, he entered on one of the most productive periods of his life, as the next volume, Writings (1901-1910), will document.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
"Albert Einstein - A Biographical Sketch" (Translated Excerpts)	p. xv
List of Texts
Birth Certificate, 15 March 1879	p. 3
Pauline Einstein to Fanny Einstein, 1 August 1886	p. 3
Comment on the Proof of a Theorem, 1891-1895	p. 3
Two Philosophical Comments, 1891-1895	p. 4
"On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field," Summer? 1895	p. 4
To Caesar Koch, Summer 1895	p. 6
Albin Herzog to Gustav Maier, 25 September 1895	p. 7
Entrance Report of the Gewerbeschule, Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 26 October 1895	p. 7
Gustav Maier to Jost Winteler, 26 October 1895	p. 8
Aargau Kantonsschule Record, 26 October 1895 - 3 October 1896	p. 8
Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 29 October 1895	p. 10
Minutes of Teachers' Conference, Aargau Kantonsschule, 8 November 1895	p. 10
Jost Winteler to Gustav Maier, 21 December 1895	p. 10
Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 30 December 1895	p. 11
Pauline Einstein to the Winteler Family, 30 December 1895	p. 11
Release from Wurttemberg Citizenship, 28 January 1896	p. 11
Inspector's Report on a Music Examination, Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 31 March 1896	p. 12
To Marie Winteler, with a Postscript by Pauline Einstein, 21 April 1896	p. 12
Final Grades, Aargau Kantonsschule, 5 September 1896	p. 13
To the Department of Education, Canton of Aargau, 7 September 1896	p. 14
Matura Examination (A) German: "Synopsis of Goethe's Goetz von Berlichingen," 18 September 1896	p. 14
Matura Examination (B) French: "My Future Plans," 18 September 1896	p. 15
Matura Examination (C) Geometry, 19 September 1896	p. 16
Matura Examination (D) Physics: "Tangent Galvanometer and Galvanometer," 19 September 1896	p. 18
Matura Examination (E) Natural History: "Evidence of the Earlier Glaciation of Our Country," 21 September 1896	p. 20
Matura Examination (F) Algebra, 21 September 1896	p. 21
Matura Examination (G) Chemistry, 21 September 1896	p. 23
ETH Record and Grade Transcript, 5-10 October 1896 - 2 August 1900	p. 25
From Marie Winteler, 4-25 November 1896	p. 29
From Marie Winteler, 30 November 1896	p. 30
Pauline Einstein to Marie Winteler, 13 December 1896	p. 31
Pauline Einstein to Marie Winteler, 24 March 1897	p. 31
Statement of a Fine, 23-28 April 1897	p. 32
To Pauline Winteler, May? 1897	p. 32
To Pauline Winteler, 7 June 1897	p. 33
From Mileva Maric, after 20 October 1897	p. 34
H. F. Weber's Lectures on Physics, ca. December 1897 - ca. June 1898	p. 36
To Maja Einstein, 1898	p. 123
To Mileva Maric, 16 February 1898	p. 123
To Mileva Maric, 16 April - 8 November 1898	p. 124
To Mileva Maric, after 16 April 1898	p. 124
Jerome Franel to Hermann Bleuler, 21 October 1898	p. 125
To Mileva Maric, after 28 November 1898	p. 125
To Maja Einstein, after February 1899	p. 126
To Mileva Maric, 13 or 20 March 1899	p. 126
To Rosa Winteler, 29 April 1899	p. 127
To Rosa Winteler, 18 May 1899	p. 127
To Julia Niggli, 28 July 1899	p. 127
Verse in the Album of Anna Schmid, August 1899	p. 128
To Mileva Maric, early August 1899	p. 129
To Julia Niggli, 6? August 1899	p. 129
To Mileva Maric, 10? August 1899	p. 130
From Mileva Maric, after 10 August - before 10 September 1899	p. 131
To Mileva Maric, 10 September 1899	p. 132
To Julia Niggli, 11 September 1899	p. 133
To Pauline Winteler, 11 September 1899	p. 134
To Mileva Maric, 28? September 1899	p. 135
To Mileva Maric, 10 October 1899	p. 136
Municipal Certificate of Residence and Good Conduct, 18 October 1899	p. 137
To the Swiss Federal Council, 19 October 1899	p. 137
From Mileva Maric, 1900?	p. 138
To the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, 28 February 1900	p. 138
Mileva Maric to Helene Kaufler, 9 March 1900	p. 138
Mileva Maric to Helene Kaufler, 4 June - 23 July 1900	p. 139
To the Zurich City Council, 26 June 1900	p. 139
Municipal Police Detective's Report, 4 July 1900	p. 140
Adolf Hurwitz to Hermann Bleuler, 27 July 1900	p. 140
To Mileva Maric, 29? July 1900	p. 141
To Mileva Maric, 1 August 1900	p. 142
To Mileva Maric, 6 August 1900	p. 143
To Mileva Maric, 9? August 1900	p. 144
To Mileva Maric, 14? August 1900	p. 145
To Mileva Maric, 20 August 1900	p. 146
To Mileva Maric, 30 August or 6 September 1900	p. 147
To Mileva Maric, 13? September 1900	p. 149
To Mileva Maric, 19 September 1900	p. 150
To Adolf Hurwitz, 30 September 1900	p. 151
To Adolf Hurwitz, 26 September 1900	p. 151
To Mileva Maric, 3 October 1900	p. 152
Mileva Maric to Helene Kaufler, before 9 October 1900	p. 153
To Helene Kaufler, 11 October 1900	p. 153
Questionnaire for Municipal Citizenship Applicants, 11-26 October 1900	p. 153
Mileva Maric to Helene Savic, with a Postscript by Einstein, 11 December 1900	p. 154
"Conclusions Drawn from the Phenomena of Capillarity," 13 December 1900 [title only]	p. 155
Minutes of the Municipal Naturalization Commission of Zurich, 14 December 1900	p. 155
Mileva Maric to Helene Savic, 20 December 1900	p. 155
To Helene Savic, 20 December 1900	p. 156
Mileva Maric to Helene Savic, with a Postscript by Einstein, 8 January - 19 March 1901	p. 157
Report of the Schweizerisches Informationsbureau, 30 January 1901	p. 157
Dedication to Friedrich Muhlberg, ca. March 1901	p. 158
To Otto Wiener, 9 March 1901	p. 158
Military Service Book, 13 March 1901	p. 158
To Wilhelm Ostwald, 19 March 1901	p. 159
To Mileva Maric, 23 March 1901	p. 159
To Mileva Maric, 27 March 1901	p. 160
To Wilhelm Ostwald, 3 April 1901	p. 162
To Mileva Maric, 4 April 1901	p. 162
To Mileva Maric, 10 April 1901	p. 163
To Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 12 April 1901	p. 164
Hermann Einstein to Wilhelm Ostwald, 13 April 1901	p. 164
To Marcel Grossmann, 14 April 1901	p. 165
To Mileva Maric, 15 April 1901	p. 166
To Mileva Maric, 23 April 1901	p. 167
From Mileva Maric, 2 May 1901	p. 168
To Alfred Stern, 3 May 1901	p. 168
From Mileva Maric, 3 May 1901	p. 169
To Mileva Maric, 9 May 1901	p. 170
To Mileva Maric, second half of May? 1901	p. 171
From Mileva Maric, second half of May? 1901	p. 172
Mileva Maric to Helene Savic, second half of May? 1901	p. 172
To Mileva Maric, second half of May? 1901	p. 173
To Mileva Maric, 28? May 1901	p. 174
To Mileva Maric, 4? June 1901	p. 174
To the Director's Office, Technikum Burgdorf, 3 July 1901	p. 175
To Mileva Maric, 7? July 1901	p. 176
To Jost Winteler, 8 July 1901	p. 176
From Mileva Maric, ca. 8 July 1901	p. 177
To the Department of Education, Canton of Bern, 16 July 1901	p. 178
From the Department of Internal Affairs, Canton of Bern, 16 July 1901	p. 178
To Mileva Maric, 22? July 1901	p. 178
From the Department of Internal Affairs, Canton of Bern, 31 July 1901	p. 179
From Mileva Maric, 31? July 1901	p. 179
To Marcel Grossmann, 6? September 1901	p. 180
From Mileva Maric, early November 1901	p. 181
From Mileva Maric, 13 November 1901	p. 182
Mileva Maric to Helene Savic, ca. 23 November - mid-December 1901	p. 183
To Mileva Maric, 28 November 1901	p. 184
To Mileva Maric, 12 December 1901	p. 185
To Mileva Maric, 17 December 1901	p. 186
To the Swiss Patent Office, 18 December 1901	p. 188
To Mileva Maric, 19 December 1901	p. 188
To Mileva Maric, 28 December 1901	p. 189
Receipt for the Return of Doctoral Fees, 1 February 1902	p. 190
To Conrad Habicht, 4 February 1902	p. 190
To Mileva Maric, 4 February 1902	p. 191
Advertisement for Private Lessons, 5 February 1902	p. 192
To Mileva Maric, 8? February 1902	p. 192
To Mileva Maric, 17? February 1902	p. 193
Pauline Einstein to Pauline Winteler, 20 February 1902	p. 193
"On the Thermodynamic Theory of the Difference in Potentials between Metals and Fully Dissociated Solutions of Their Salts and On an Electrical Method for Investigating Molecular Forces," April 1902 [title only]	p. 194
To Conrad Habicht, April? 1902	p. 194
"Kinetic Theory of Thermal Equilibrium and of the Second Law of Thermodynamics," June 1902 [title only]	p. 194
The Swiss Department of Justice to the Swiss Federal Council, 2 June 1902	p. 194
From the Swiss Department of Justice, 19 June 1902	p. 195
From the Swiss Patent Office, 19 June 1902	p. 196
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