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Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

Einstein’s science and independent spirit

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Einstein’s science and independent spirit

Walter Isaacson’s biography connects Albert Einstein’s scientific imagination with the unconventional outlook that shaped his life. Drawing on Einstein’s personal letters, it traces the contrast between his early professional and family difficulties and his later scientific prominence. The book also considers how questioning accepted ideas and attending to everyday puzzles informed his approach to physics, alongside the moral and political commitments to individual freedom that the description associates with him. Science, personal experience, creativity, and public ideas meet in a portrait that places Einstein’s work within a broader account of the person behind it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in biographies of scientists and the history of science.
  • Readers who want to explore the relationship between scientific creativity and personal character.
  • Readers interested in Einstein’s views on freedom and public life.

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Scientific imaginationQuestioning conventionCreativity and freedomPersonal life and scientific achievement

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Book overview

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.

Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
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