March 24, 2012 at 02:15The complete archive of Einstein's manuscripts
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is finishing scanning and publishing online manuscripts of Albert Einstein. Now about 3,000 scanned images are presented on the Einstein Archives Online website , by the end of this year their number will increase to 7,000. Einstein’s full archive exceeds 80,000 entries, including letters, travel notes and other personal documents, such as a school certificate .
All documents are recognized and indexed for full-text database searches . Now the index has about 43,000 documents, by the end of the year the database will be complete.
In the picture above is a fragment of the article “E = mc 2: The Most Imperative Problem of Our Time ”, manuscript in German. The article was published in the journal Science Illustrated, 1946. Interestingly, the famous formula is found in only three Einstein manuscripts.
