Einstein's Work Algorithms

A reconstructed decision-tree of Albert Einstein's public working methods, built from scientific publications, book chapters, lectures, essays, and archival bibliographies. Each paper or chapter is treated as a lecture-like case: a problem, a main thesis/result, and an inferred path through a strategy ensemble.

33 strategies300 casespapers + book chapters1901–1955 source windowWilliam Chuang / Logarchéon 2026
01The Einstein Decision Tree

This is a reconstruction from public writings and bibliographic records. It does not claim access to Einstein's private cognition. Physics after 1955 is excluded as an assumption; later scholarship is used only to identify source boundaries and bibliographic structure.

Face a physical concept, anomaly, or foundation problem
What must remain invariant, measurable, or real?

Strategy prevalence ranking — 33 strategies

Overlapping strategy prevalence: percentage = cases using this strategy / 300; totals may exceed 100% · click any bar

02Corpus — 300 Paper / Chapter / Lecture Cases

The corpus is a derived map, not a reproduction of Einstein's texts. It uses the publication bibliography and Collected Papers source spine to represent papers, book chapters, books, lectures, and essays as case-level theses/results.

#YearSourceCaseMain thesis / resultStrategy path
03Source Spine and Limits

Einstein's archive is larger than this page: the Collected Papers / Einstein Papers Project and the Hebrew University archive contain manuscripts, correspondence, lectures, notebooks, and non-scientific writings. This page is a research scaffold for method reconstruction, not a complete critical edition.

04Worked Demonstrations

Each demonstration shows the subquestions that move from a physical or conceptual tension to an Einstein-style result.