Einstein: His Life And Universe

Einstein: His Life And Universe by Walter Isaacson


ISBN
9780743264730
Published
Released
01 / 06 / 2007
Binding
Other
Pages
448
Dimensions
168 x 243mm

Combining wit, history and drama, this is the first full biography on Einstein -- the most influential scientist of the twentieth century -- since all of his papers were opened to the public.

Albert Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius.

In Isaacson's account, Einstein is a revolutionary and a rebel, a non-conformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity, and imagination are related, and the drive both his life and his work. In Isaacson's marvelously clear account, we watch Einstein over the many decades of his life and we understand something of how the mind of a genius worked. Isaacson writes with such precision and patience that we grasp what for many of us has always been a mystery -- Einstein's great discoveries which revolutionised physics.

The young Einstein rebelled against rote learning, causing him to be expelled by one headmaster for imprudence and told by another that he was unlikely to amount to much. From his boyhood on, he understood that freedom of thought is the key to imagination and, as he famously declared, imagination is more important than knowledge.

It was a conviction that carried over to his politics and personal life. His belief in freedom led him to oppose all forms of tyranny, from German militarism, to fascism to communism to McCarthyism. He was a difficult husband and father, but he was also intense and passionate both with family and with many lifelong friends.

The legend of Einstein starts when he was still in his twenties. In 1905, unable to get an academic job, he was working as a third-class clerk in a Swiss patent office. During his spare time, he produced four papers that upended physics. The first shows that light could be conceived as particles as well as waves. The second proved the existence of atoms and molecules. The third, to be known as the special theory of relativity, said that there was no such thing as absolute time or space. And the fourth noted that E=mc2.
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