Einstein in Bohemia

In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein, his wife and two sons moved to Prague, where he worked as a professor of theoretical physics at a German university. Contrary to original expectations, he stayed in Prague for only sixteen months, and this period is therefore usually considered by his biographers as an unimportant episode. Michael Gordin thoroughly explores a great scientist's encounter with a city with a thousand years of history; His book is not only a record of one period of his scientific career, but also a portrait of a time and a city.