The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs

Hanoch Gutfreund is professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is also academic director of the Albert Einstein Archives. Jürgen Renn is founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and former director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of The Evolution of Knowledge (Princeton). Gutfreund and Renn are the authors of Einstein on Einstein and The Formative Years of Relativity (both Princeton).