We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton's most famous resident, ...

Albert Einstein's science was remarkable in its purity and its simplicity. Unaided, and also unimpeded, by the machinery of modern science -- foundation grants, research assistants, supercomputers, ...

Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought of my life." Interlude one. The romance of many dimensions ; Glimpsing a solution ...