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Einstein
Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. From his remarkable theory of relativity and the famous equation E=mc2 to his concept of a unified field theory, no one has contributed as much to science in the last century.
As well as showing how Einstein developed his theories, Einstein reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and experiments in Germany and his struggle to find work at the Swiss patent office to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and his work for civil rights groups in the United States.
Drawing on new research and personal documents belonging to Einstein only recently made available, this book also includes items of rare facsimile memorabilia, to show you more than this scientist's groundbreaking theories.
As well as showing how Einstein developed his theories, Einstein reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and experiments in Germany and his struggle to find work at the Swiss patent office to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and his work for civil rights groups in the United States.
Drawing on new research and personal documents belonging to Einstein only recently made available, this book also includes items of rare facsimile memorabilia, to show you more than this scientist's groundbreaking theories.
94 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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Walter Isaacson
100 books22.5k followersWalter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson
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November 28, 2014
This book was a very useful book to read if it is hard for you to read the bigger version of Einstein. This book has more information about the scientists that helped make the Einsteins theories. Also the many different small factors of his life is written in here with some pictures. It is much more easier than the thicker version and easier to understand the concepts of the many different theories he made.
August 10, 2017
While interesting and informative, it lacked a certain inspirational quality which I was kind of hoping for.
However, I was pleasantly surprised that the scientific explanations were written in such a way that I, knowing next to nothing about science, was able to understand most of what was going on.
I was annoyed, intrigued, frustrated and impressed by Einstein all throughout the reading of this book. The author paints him as a human, flaws and all, standing up for what he believed. Which I guess is kind of inspirational after all.
However, I was pleasantly surprised that the scientific explanations were written in such a way that I, knowing next to nothing about science, was able to understand most of what was going on.
I was annoyed, intrigued, frustrated and impressed by Einstein all throughout the reading of this book. The author paints him as a human, flaws and all, standing up for what he believed. Which I guess is kind of inspirational after all.
May 14, 2020
Daha önce benim gözümden dünya adlı kitabında nasıl biri olduğunun sinyallerini kendisi vermişti. Bu kez bir biyografi ile -kısmen objektif diyebileceğimiz bir biyografi- sinyaller daha da netleşti. Bilim insanı olarak tartışmasız bir yerde. Fakat gerek kişisel yaşamında gerek insan ilişkileri ve toplumlara sunduklarında ne yazık ki büyük problemler var. Tabi bu bir dediği bir dediğini tutmama ya da söylediklerinin bir zaman hem de çok kısa bir zamanda değişmesi, bilimin üstüne koyarak gitmesine örnek olarak görülebilir. Ama çoğu kez bu farklı bir biçimde de yorumlanabilir.
Bir diğer konu din ile bilimi bir arada harmanlaması. Tanrının zar atmayacağını savunması ya da farklı tarz bir dinden, inanıştan bahsetmesi. Bir bilim insanının mitolojiyle, edebi eserden öte ne gibi bir bağlantısı olabilir? Hatta buna inanarak ilerlemeye çalışması önünü tıkayan bir engel olmayacak mıdır? Bize bir nevi dördüncü boyuttan bahseden birinin, ilahi bir gücün elinden de aynı biçimde bahsetmesi kafalarımızı yeterinden fazla karıştırmıyor mu?
Son söz olarak, farklı bir karakter, otorite düşmanı,
çok zeki bir bilim insanı, iyi olmayan bir baba, duygusuz bir eş, yerine göre savaş karşıtı, yerine göre değil, yerine göre kitle imha silahı savunucusu, yerine göre değil. Belki de sadece kafası oldukça karışık bir bilim insanı.
Bir diğer konu din ile bilimi bir arada harmanlaması. Tanrının zar atmayacağını savunması ya da farklı tarz bir dinden, inanıştan bahsetmesi. Bir bilim insanının mitolojiyle, edebi eserden öte ne gibi bir bağlantısı olabilir? Hatta buna inanarak ilerlemeye çalışması önünü tıkayan bir engel olmayacak mıdır? Bize bir nevi dördüncü boyuttan bahseden birinin, ilahi bir gücün elinden de aynı biçimde bahsetmesi kafalarımızı yeterinden fazla karıştırmıyor mu?
Son söz olarak, farklı bir karakter, otorite düşmanı,
çok zeki bir bilim insanı, iyi olmayan bir baba, duygusuz bir eş, yerine göre savaş karşıtı, yerine göre değil, yerine göre kitle imha silahı savunucusu, yerine göre değil. Belki de sadece kafası oldukça karışık bir bilim insanı.
November 6, 2017
An excellent biography of a great scientist. It's strength is the portrayal of the man's foibles, as well as, his intellectual accomplishments. By understanding his life experiences, we see more clearly his drive to learn and discover about his own nature, as well as Nature.
June 9, 2017
A shorter picture book version of Isaacson's 600+ page earlier biography of Einstein, this was readable, even for a non-scientist like me. The many visuals (photographs, documents, etc.) enriched the whole. I had started to read Isaacson's larger Einstein biography, but discontinued in favor of this one. The text is selected from the larger, earlier book, just not as much of it.
The life of Albert Einstein was so much more than I had known before reading this. He was an amazing man in so many ways. Although a scientific genius, he also had strong opinions about many things. He referred to himself as a Democratic Socialist, a term being used (and maligned) during the present 2016 presidential campaign. His religious views were interesting to read. Although Jewish, he did not live by Jewish practices. He was more of a cultural Jew. He was a Zionist and believed in equality of all people, and abhorred segregation. He changed his citizenship more than once during his life, finally becoming a citizen of the USA. In some ways this was a fun book to read, because of the way it is presented, but it is also a meaningful read.
The life of Albert Einstein was so much more than I had known before reading this. He was an amazing man in so many ways. Although a scientific genius, he also had strong opinions about many things. He referred to himself as a Democratic Socialist, a term being used (and maligned) during the present 2016 presidential campaign. His religious views were interesting to read. Although Jewish, he did not live by Jewish practices. He was more of a cultural Jew. He was a Zionist and believed in equality of all people, and abhorred segregation. He changed his citizenship more than once during his life, finally becoming a citizen of the USA. In some ways this was a fun book to read, because of the way it is presented, but it is also a meaningful read.
April 26, 2015
My takeaway after reading this very good book is that Einstein was somewhat 30% a smart guy, and 70% a self-made celebrity, like the Kardashians (is it how you spell it?). It was extremely difficult for him to find a job doing anything at all. He tried teaching at his school, research, etc, to no avail. Even the famous patent office gave him the job after many years of asking for it. Nobody ever responded to the abundance of resumes and cover letters that he sent all over the place. He was unable to demonstrate his capacity even to the principal in a humble school... maybe a poor resume writing skill? Who knows. There is no doubt he was very smart. People around him were sure he would be awarded the Nobel Prize some time, and he was; however, it was not for whatever relativity theory he invented, but for some obscure and little unrelated topic. This man's life was the life of a smart person who did not really belong, and his way to deal with it was to transform himself in a sort of primitive reality show star, and he succeeded in that endeavor. I found it fascinating.
January 7, 2015
Perfection.
August 26, 2020
I just regret not having read this book before.
September 16, 2015
This book gave me a composite overview of Einstein’s life beyond the details of his scientific genius. Isaacson’s book gave an outstanding narrative, was filled with photos and relevant documents, and captured me as a engaged reader. Einstein was a complex man whose public and private life were intermeshed with purpose and passion. The author described Einstein’s early life and bent toward what he called “thought experiments” in which he embraced “imagination” as his greatest tool. Isaacson told of his subject’s education, his relationships personal and professional. He wrote of Einstein’s Jewish background and his aversion to formal religion or, for that matter, to any religion. He spoke of Einstein’s early pacifist/isolationist bent to an altered position of bomb control advocate after the Nazi atrocities and eventual use of the atomic bomb on Japan. The author also gave a good description of Einstein’s two marriages and children and the relationships with them. These were fascinating but are not covered in this review.
Einstein loved music and music was a passion his whole life. He would frequently play the violin wherever he found opportunity. “Music never ceased to be one of Einstein’s ruling passions. For him it provided a direct connection with the sense of the harmony that lay behind the universe…The beauty of this harmony he could feel not only in music, but also in his study of physics.”
Of course, the genius of Albert Einstein was best displayed in his scientific mind and scientific contributions. His special and general relativity stand out as revolutionary and these among other discoveries are the core of the book’s presentation.
In his special theory of relativity Einstein presented a completely different notion of space and time. “Based purely on thought experiments—performed in his head rather than in a lab—he had decided to discard Newton’s concepts of absolute space and time.” Einstein determined that as speed increased, time would slow. As a corollary of Special Relativity, “almost an afterthought Einstein added that there must be a direct relationship between the mass of a body and the energy contained within it”. Thus the energy of a body emitting radiation/mass decrease relationship of E=mc2.
Einstein didn’t like it that applications should only be applied to special cases. Therefore he made a quest to generalize relativity so that it could be applied to accelerated motion. He then came up with a new general theory of relativity. He determined an equivalence principle whereby “the effects of being in a gravitational field are equivalent to those of being accelerated upward”. Also from this theory he determined that gravity should curve a light beam.
Pressed by a journalist to condense his theory into one sentence (he had tried in vain to do it in one book), Einstein replied that, “his work…dealt with space and time in terms of physics. Its end result was a gravitational theory.” Even in the shortness of the reply it was more than one sentence and could not come close to summarizing the concept.
The Quantum Theory reveals that light has a dual nature of waves and particles. The Quantum Mechanics theorists postulated that because of the dual nature that there was an element of probability or chance in the way that photons were emitted and electrons behaved. Einstein had fundamental qualms about abandoning strict causality and accepting some things that happen by chance. This caused years of debate and Einstein’s pursuit of answers for the rest of his life. “He found the notion of God playing dice with the universe an incredible one.”
This would bring us to think that Einstein believed in God. Well he did, based on the observations he had made in science and in particular the universe itself. However, he did not agree that God was personal and participated in the events of human life. He expressed this when asked if he believed in God, “he believed like the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, in a God whose existence could be determined in the harmonious beauty of the natural laws, he had established, but who did not intervene in the day-to-day affairs of mankind.” Einstein would be considered a Deist as was Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Very sad…
When asked in 1952 by Israel’s ambassador to become the next president, Einstein rejected it. “…his life had taught him to be objective, leaving him to feel he lacked the ability and experience necessary to deal with people and to assume an office…He liked to say precisely what he believed, rather than cloak his thoughts in diplomatic language, and he was not cut out to be either a statesman or a figurehead.”
Here is a quote from Albert Einstein that politicians of today should consider: “Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.”
In conclusion the author’s description of Einstein’s legacy is a fitting tribute:
“Decades after his death, all of Einstein’s great discoveries remain durable, and we are still living in his universe, one defined on the macro scale by his theory of relativity and on the micro scale by his quantum theory. His fingerprints are all over the technologies that have defined our times, from lasers and DVDs to atomic power and fiber optics, to space travel and even semiconductors. From the infinite to the infinitesimal—from the largest concept imaginable, the expansion of the Universe, to the very smallest one, the emission of photons from the nucleus of an atom—Einstein’s creativity continues to define the vast sweep of what we know about our cosmos, and about everything in it.”
Einstein was a pretty amazing man and Walter Isaacson gave us a pretty amazing biography in is short colorful book.
Einstein loved music and music was a passion his whole life. He would frequently play the violin wherever he found opportunity. “Music never ceased to be one of Einstein’s ruling passions. For him it provided a direct connection with the sense of the harmony that lay behind the universe…The beauty of this harmony he could feel not only in music, but also in his study of physics.”
Of course, the genius of Albert Einstein was best displayed in his scientific mind and scientific contributions. His special and general relativity stand out as revolutionary and these among other discoveries are the core of the book’s presentation.
In his special theory of relativity Einstein presented a completely different notion of space and time. “Based purely on thought experiments—performed in his head rather than in a lab—he had decided to discard Newton’s concepts of absolute space and time.” Einstein determined that as speed increased, time would slow. As a corollary of Special Relativity, “almost an afterthought Einstein added that there must be a direct relationship between the mass of a body and the energy contained within it”. Thus the energy of a body emitting radiation/mass decrease relationship of E=mc2.
Einstein didn’t like it that applications should only be applied to special cases. Therefore he made a quest to generalize relativity so that it could be applied to accelerated motion. He then came up with a new general theory of relativity. He determined an equivalence principle whereby “the effects of being in a gravitational field are equivalent to those of being accelerated upward”. Also from this theory he determined that gravity should curve a light beam.
Pressed by a journalist to condense his theory into one sentence (he had tried in vain to do it in one book), Einstein replied that, “his work…dealt with space and time in terms of physics. Its end result was a gravitational theory.” Even in the shortness of the reply it was more than one sentence and could not come close to summarizing the concept.
The Quantum Theory reveals that light has a dual nature of waves and particles. The Quantum Mechanics theorists postulated that because of the dual nature that there was an element of probability or chance in the way that photons were emitted and electrons behaved. Einstein had fundamental qualms about abandoning strict causality and accepting some things that happen by chance. This caused years of debate and Einstein’s pursuit of answers for the rest of his life. “He found the notion of God playing dice with the universe an incredible one.”
This would bring us to think that Einstein believed in God. Well he did, based on the observations he had made in science and in particular the universe itself. However, he did not agree that God was personal and participated in the events of human life. He expressed this when asked if he believed in God, “he believed like the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, in a God whose existence could be determined in the harmonious beauty of the natural laws, he had established, but who did not intervene in the day-to-day affairs of mankind.” Einstein would be considered a Deist as was Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Very sad…
When asked in 1952 by Israel’s ambassador to become the next president, Einstein rejected it. “…his life had taught him to be objective, leaving him to feel he lacked the ability and experience necessary to deal with people and to assume an office…He liked to say precisely what he believed, rather than cloak his thoughts in diplomatic language, and he was not cut out to be either a statesman or a figurehead.”
Here is a quote from Albert Einstein that politicians of today should consider: “Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.”
In conclusion the author’s description of Einstein’s legacy is a fitting tribute:
“Decades after his death, all of Einstein’s great discoveries remain durable, and we are still living in his universe, one defined on the macro scale by his theory of relativity and on the micro scale by his quantum theory. His fingerprints are all over the technologies that have defined our times, from lasers and DVDs to atomic power and fiber optics, to space travel and even semiconductors. From the infinite to the infinitesimal—from the largest concept imaginable, the expansion of the Universe, to the very smallest one, the emission of photons from the nucleus of an atom—Einstein’s creativity continues to define the vast sweep of what we know about our cosmos, and about everything in it.”
Einstein was a pretty amazing man and Walter Isaacson gave us a pretty amazing biography in is short colorful book.
June 15, 2024
Spodziewalam sie troche wiecej smaczkow z zycia tworcy teorii wzglednosci. Kilka ciekawostek:
1. Stracil obywatelstwo w wyniku niedopilnowania formalnosci zwiazanych ze zmiana adresu
2. Bardzo zalezalo mu, aby teoria wzglednosci byla rozumiana powszechnie, nie tylko przez uczonych
3. Poza wybitnymi umiejetnosciami z nauk scialych, byl rowniez swietnym psychologiem - na wykladach szybko wylapywal, ze sluchacze go nie rozumieja/tracą koncentrację i dostosowywal wyklad do nich
1. Stracil obywatelstwo w wyniku niedopilnowania formalnosci zwiazanych ze zmiana adresu
2. Bardzo zalezalo mu, aby teoria wzglednosci byla rozumiana powszechnie, nie tylko przez uczonych
3. Poza wybitnymi umiejetnosciami z nauk scialych, byl rowniez swietnym psychologiem - na wykladach szybko wylapywal, ze sluchacze go nie rozumieja/tracą koncentrację i dostosowywal wyklad do nich
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 11, 2017
Ok, honestly I skimmed over a lot of the theoretical physics scientific explanations. I was more interested in his personal background and history but I was surprised about how many other scientists contributed to his ideas and that his genius was in his thought experiments which few other scientists could folllow. And he left it up to them to prove his theories through mathematical measurements or laboratory experiments.
The writing is a bit stodgy and pedantic even when relating his personal relationships but if you as a reader are interested in the information, and it’s new to you, as it was to me, I didn’t mind.
The writing is a bit stodgy and pedantic even when relating his personal relationships but if you as a reader are interested in the information, and it’s new to you, as it was to me, I didn’t mind.
June 3, 2022
This book was fun.
Some cool facts about this sexy beast:
• He played the violin very well and performed publicly often
• Despite being famous for his revolutionary equation E=mc^2, his work did not gain recognition and momentum for some years
• He was refused the Nobel prize repeatedly despite being the most nominated person every year and when he did win in 1921, he did not attend
• He did not get the Nobel prize for his work on relativity, rather his work on the photoelectric effect because his theories were too far out to be savoured by the Nobel committee
• He was not present for his first child’s birth. Sighs.
• He was a distant father and put his work above his family resulting in a strained and aloof relationship with his children
• He left his wife for his cousin. Yes, really.
• He was a pacifist and publicly voiced his opposition for war during the politically tumultuous 1900s
• Einstein zealously rejected the idea of a quantum world dictated by chance and probability and spent the latter part of his life trying to disprove the theories and even taking his papers to his hospital bed where he passed
• I think a large part of his success is a result of his extreme stubbornness-his theory on relativity sprouted from his rejection of Newton’s laws- a trait coyly flaunted and relished in after he had established and settled into his status.
Some cool facts about this sexy beast:
• He played the violin very well and performed publicly often
• Despite being famous for his revolutionary equation E=mc^2, his work did not gain recognition and momentum for some years
• He was refused the Nobel prize repeatedly despite being the most nominated person every year and when he did win in 1921, he did not attend
• He did not get the Nobel prize for his work on relativity, rather his work on the photoelectric effect because his theories were too far out to be savoured by the Nobel committee
• He was not present for his first child’s birth. Sighs.
• He was a distant father and put his work above his family resulting in a strained and aloof relationship with his children
• He left his wife for his cousin. Yes, really.
• He was a pacifist and publicly voiced his opposition for war during the politically tumultuous 1900s
• Einstein zealously rejected the idea of a quantum world dictated by chance and probability and spent the latter part of his life trying to disprove the theories and even taking his papers to his hospital bed where he passed
• I think a large part of his success is a result of his extreme stubbornness-his theory on relativity sprouted from his rejection of Newton’s laws- a trait coyly flaunted and relished in after he had established and settled into his status.
March 9, 2023
DNF. Despite having less than 100 pages, this book was mind-numbingly boring which is sad, because all the interactive elements couldn't make it more appealing. It's doubly sad because I am a physicist, who happens to really like Einstein. I think the issue is 1. the writing is bland, 2. I don't feel that the science (physics concepts) was particularly well explained, although that could just be me, and 3. the organization was a little disjointed. I would have preferred the story to be told chronologically.
It should be noted that my review is subjective. Through one way or another, I knew some aspects of Einstein's life (like his first marriage, the controversy around his Nobel Prize win, etc.) so from the get-go this book wouldn't be as enlightening to me as it would be to someone unfamiliar with the man. In addition, the science parts are probably appreciated by non-Physics majors, but I just skimmed the entire section.
All in all it's worth a read, but I don't think this book will impress any Physics major.
It should be noted that my review is subjective. Through one way or another, I knew some aspects of Einstein's life (like his first marriage, the controversy around his Nobel Prize win, etc.) so from the get-go this book wouldn't be as enlightening to me as it would be to someone unfamiliar with the man. In addition, the science parts are probably appreciated by non-Physics majors, but I just skimmed the entire section.
All in all it's worth a read, but I don't think this book will impress any Physics major.
April 1, 2022
I listened to the audio book, and I have enjoyed a great deal. Not only the book goes over the details of Einstein’s life, it also touches on the scientific concepts that he has worked on as well. Quantum physics or field theory or relativity or tensor. So, it made me interested to start reading about those subjects as well.
I knew Einstein has revolutionized physics before listening to this book, but I wasn’t aware his political influence, the evolution of his theories and the level of collaboration the has with colleagues and the scope of his contribution to atomic bomb.
I think reading the book is necessary for everyone to learn what is the potential every person has, and the contribution each one of us could have, even if we have speak disability during childhood …
A must read, in my humble opinion.
I knew Einstein has revolutionized physics before listening to this book, but I wasn’t aware his political influence, the evolution of his theories and the level of collaboration the has with colleagues and the scope of his contribution to atomic bomb.
I think reading the book is necessary for everyone to learn what is the potential every person has, and the contribution each one of us could have, even if we have speak disability during childhood …
A must read, in my humble opinion.
July 30, 2017
If I have read this book in my elementary school, I could have studies science.
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
August 15, 2018
Great book about the man behind the genius. Incredible imagination and ability to use it to challenge accepted physics with objective new theories that were only then tested to prove them out. Book makes some of the thought experiments understandable, such as the shrinking of dimensions as objects approach the speed of light. Interesting to see the social strengths and failings, showing how real a man he was.
A bit slow in places, but well worth the full 5 stars, given the historical significance and the illumination of a real human being.
A bit slow in places, but well worth the full 5 stars, given the historical significance and the illumination of a real human being.
February 21, 2019
Walter Isaacson is a master. I loved Ben Franklin so I picked up this one. I learned about physics as well as Einstein's life and mind. He was a really interesting, moral thinker. His thought experiments that taught him so much and allowed him to visualize complex physical questions validated (for me) my own habit of doing that. His vision of a benign one-world government is perhaps naive but also tempting to hope for given all the human conflict around. I highly recommend Walter Isaacson in general and Einstein in particular.
June 21, 2019
Nicely layout of Einstein's live timeline. It covers more of the personal side than professional side, the struggling in getting the answers to the problems. It pinches me that success is not a linear line that always goes up. Live has up and down, no matter who you are. Einstein's thought on the education system holds as of today, that schools focus more on teaching facts rather than teaching students to think.
August 5, 2019
A brief review of Albert Einstein’s life, complete with some photos and copies of documents. Also contains a section of translations of key documents.
A more complete and scholarly work by Isaacson (from which this book apparently draws) is “Einstein: His Life and Universe” ; Walter Isaacson; Simon & Schuster, 2007, 2008.
A more complete and scholarly work by Isaacson (from which this book apparently draws) is “Einstein: His Life and Universe” ; Walter Isaacson; Simon & Schuster, 2007, 2008.
June 17, 2017
Walter Isaacson es garantía, su trabajo es reconocible desde la primera página y este libro no es la excepción. Muestra el lado humano y lo más exquisito: detalles de la vida de Einstein que muy pocos conocemos
September 30, 2020
Ίσως η καλύτερη βιογραφία του Albert Einstein που έχω διαβάσει. Πέραν της αρμονικής γραφής, οι πληροφορίες που είχαν οι σελίδες είναι ανεκτίμητες. Στιγμές της ζωής του που δεν μου ήταν γνωστές και έκαναν την ανάγνωση του βιβλίου άκρως ενδιαφέρουσα.
December 12, 2023
I didn't find this one as interesting as other biographies, but perhaps because I'm not that interested in physics or einstein, I guess a lesson in there is about obsession and sacrifice, as well as the normalcy of life despite being one of the world's most impactful people on the planet!
December 22, 2017
Great biography, nailed it. Einstein has always intrigued me. Isaacson pulls it off again.
December 24, 2019
Uitstekende biografie van Einstein als wetenschapper,echtgenoot,vader en filosoof.
January 1, 2020
Trochu zkratkovite a bohuzel plne preklepu (ceska verze).
April 15, 2020
i love it because he my inpiration
November 22, 2020
Great book of the life and times of Elbert Einstein, filled with replicated notes and memos, a really interesting way to read a life story
October 26, 2022
کتاب جذابی بود با عکس ها و نامه ها و مستندات از زندگی آنیشان که دیدنشون حس خوبی داشت
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