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25-514: The EPP was established by Princeton University Press (PUP) in 1977 at the Institute for Advanced Study . The founding editor of the project was professor of physics John Stachel . In 1984, the project moved from Princeton to Stachel's home institution, Boston University . The first volume of the CPAE was published by PUP in 1987. The following year, historian of science Martin J. Klein of Yale University

50-654: A companion English translation volume. The EPP collaborates with the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In his last will and testament, Einstein bequeathed his literary estate and his personal papers to the Hebrew University. The project and the archives maintain and update a shared archival database of 90,000+ records, freely accessible online. Support for the project comes from PUP, endowments from individuals and universities,

75-480: A ground-breaking paper, "Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and of a Theory of Gravitation", which was published in 1913 and was one of the two fundamental papers which established Einstein's theory of gravity. Grossmann died of multiple sclerosis in 1936. The community of relativists celebrates Grossmann's contributions to physics by organizing Marcel Grossmann meetings every three years. The International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics presents

100-454: A notebook documenting his preparation for his first joint paper (1913, with Marcel Grossmann ), previously unknown calculations with Michele Besso on the motion of the perihelion of Mercury , etc. Includes more than five hundred previously unpublished letters to and from Einstein in his early adulthood, from his first employment at the Swiss patent office in 1902 through his appointment to

125-471: The absolute differential calculus , started by Elwin Bruno Christoffel and fully developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita . Grossmann facilitated Einstein's unique synthesis of mathematical and theoretical physics in what is still today considered the most elegant and powerful theory of gravity: the general theory of relativity. The collaboration of Einstein and Grossmann led to

150-663: The Annus Mirabilis Papers , text of his invited lecture after his first academic appointment to the University of Zurich , etc. Includes Einstein's report to the first Solvay Conference , his appointment to the Charles University in Prague , his paper calculating gravitational bending of light, previously unpublished lecture notes, etc. Includes a previously unpublished manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics ,

175-578: The Federal Polytechnic School (ETH) and became an assistant to the geometer Wilhelm Fiedler . He continued to do research on non-Euclidean geometry and taught in high schools for the next seven years. In 1902, he earned his doctorate from the University of Zurich with the thesis Ueber die metrischen Eigenschaften kollinearer Gebilde (translated On the Metrical Properties of Collinear Structures ) with Fiedler as advisor. In 1907, he

200-630: The Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers. Six books from Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes : Books from Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize , the Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award . Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by

225-686: The National Science Foundation , and the National Endowment for the Humanities . In late 2014, the EPP and PUP launched The Digital Einstein Papers . The website presents the complete contents of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein , Volumes 1–15. The project volumes are reproduced online as fully searchable PDFs . All documents and endnotes are linked to provide seamless transitions between

250-588: The Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1914. Correspondents included Max von Laue , Paul Ehrenfest , Alfred Kleiner , Fritz Haber , Walther Nernst , etc. Includes papers describing Einstein's only experimental physics investigation, a study of André-Marie Ampère 's molecular current theory of electromagnetism with Wander Johannes de Haas ; etc. The Digital Einstein Papers is an open-access site for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein . The site presents volumes 1–16 and will add subsequent volumes in

275-548: The Einstein Archives Online and in some cases, the digitized manuscript. The launch of The Digital Einstein Papers has attracted broad attention in the press so far, with coverage ranging from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal . The trustees of Einstein's literary estate were: The editors of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein were: Current editors of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein are: The current executive committee members of

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300-647: The Federal Polytechnic School proved to be a salvation for Einstein, who missed many lectures. Grossmann's father helped Einstein get his job at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern , and it was Grossmann who helped to conduct the negotiations to bring Einstein back from Prague as a professor of physics at the Zurich Polytechnic. Grossmann was an expert in differential geometry and tensor calculus ; just

325-464: The documentary edition, presents full text documents in their original language, primarily German. Introductions, endnotes, texts selected for inclusion as abstracts, etc. are in English. Volume 16 of the CPAE is the most recent publication in the series; the first sixteen volumes cover Einstein's life up to May 1929. PUP publishes the series. With each documentary edition, the EPP simultaneously publishes

350-540: The equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, The Daily Princetonian , and later added book publishing to its activities. Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910. Since 1911,

375-538: The financial support of Charles Scribner , as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon 's Lectures on Moral Philosophy. Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II . Darrow and Scribner purchased

400-568: The mathematical tools providing a proper mathematical framework for Einstein's work on gravity. Thus, it was natural that Einstein would enter into a scientific collaboration with Grossmann. It was Grossmann who emphasized the importance of a non-Euclidean geometry called Riemannian geometry (also elliptic geometry ) to Einstein, which was a necessary step in the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity . Abraham Pais 's book on Einstein suggests that Grossmann mentored Einstein in tensor theory as well. Grossmann introduced Einstein to

425-771: The original language documentary edition and English translations. Subsequent volumes will be added to the website approximately eighteen months after their release in print. It is projected that there will be thirty volumes in the series. Eventually, the Digital Einstein Papers website will provide access to all of Einstein's writings and correspondence accompanied by scholarly annotation and apparatus. Includes many previously unpublished documents, e.g. class notes for Heinrich Friedrich Weber 's lectures on thermodynamics and electromagnetism during Einstein's second year at ETH Zurich , etc. Includes Einstein's first (1900) published paper after his graduation from ETH Zurich ,

450-806: The press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg . The design of press's building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017. Princeton University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in

475-544: The press include: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of the great editorial achievements in all history." Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation , a 1943 project of Paul Mellon 's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study, including archaeology , poetry , and psychology . The Bollingen Series

500-416: The project are: 34°08′23″N 118°07′18″W  /  34.13967°N 118.12163°W  / 34.13967; -118.12163 Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University . Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with

525-530: The project's move to Caltech. (Volume 11 in the series is a comprehensive index and bibliography to Volumes 1–10). The CPAE volumes include Einstein's books, his published and unpublished scientific and non-scientific articles, his lecture and research notebooks, travel diaries, book reviews, appeals, and reliable records of his lectures, speeches, interviews with the press, and other oral statements. The volumes also include his professional, personal, and political correspondence. Each annotated volume, referred to as

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550-423: The series roughly two years after original book publication. The volumes are presented in the original language version with in-depth English language annotation and other scholarly apparatus. In addition, the reader can toggle to an English language translation of most documents. By clicking on the unique archival identifier number below each text, readers can access the archival record of each published document at

575-647: Was appointed full professor of descriptive geometry at the Federal Polytechnic School. As a professor of geometry, Grossmann organized summer courses for high school teachers. In 1910, he became one of the founders of the Swiss Mathematical Society . He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 at Cambridge and in 1920 at Strasbourg . Albert Einstein 's friendship with Grossmann began with their school days in Zürich. Grossmann's careful and complete lecture notes at

600-527: Was appointed senior editor of the project. Volumes 1-6 and 8 of the series were completed during the project's time in Boston. In 2000, professor of history Diana Kormos-Buchwald was appointed general editor and director of the EPP and established offices for the project at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) In Pasadena, California . Volumes 7 and 9-16 of the CPAE have been completed since

625-577: Was given to the university in 1969. Marcel Grossmann Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician who was a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein . Grossmann came from an old Swiss family in Zürich . His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich, today the ETH Zurich , specializing in descriptive geometry . In 1900 Grossmann graduated from

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