Binding: Paperback
Description: What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don t think I ve ever read a book that does this as well Whenever there's a chance for storytelling Bodanis triumphs. Popular Science Fascinating. Forbes Widely considered the greatest genius of all time Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was ignored by most working scientists and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends. How did this happen? Best - selling biographer David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's life from the skeptical erratic student to the world's most brilliant physicist to the fallen - from - grace celebrity. An intimate biography in which theories of the universe morph into theories of life (Times London) Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all - too - human flaws.
Title: Einstein's Greatest Mistake A Biography
Author(s): Bodanis David
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9781328745521
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/17/2017