Einstein’s Tutor: errata

I’m collecting here corrections of mistakes as I become aware of them as well as notes about things I believe I could have made clearer or more complete in the book. Please let me know in comments or email if you have your own thoughts, and especially if you think you’ve found a mistake.

p. 82: Things culminated in November 1915 (not 2015). Even with an editor and at least two others (besides me) combing though the book, these things slip by.

p. 173: The incident with the Brownshirt arriving for Emmy Noether’s clandestine class merited another footnote. The Nazi student was probably Ernst Witt (see footnote 1 of the Letter by Norbert Schappacher and Erhard Scholz in The Mathematical Intelligencer, 18, 1996, p. 5, DOI 10.1007/BF03024810, which also identifies the class as a “seminar on Hasse’s notes on Class Field Theory”, and footnote 68 on p. 60 of Mathematicians under the Nazis by Sanford L. Segal (2014), ISBN 0691164630).