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- English
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About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Main Characters
- Chapter One: The Light-Beam Rider
- Chapter Two: Childhood, 1879–1896
- Chapter Three: The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896–1900
- Chapter Four: The Lovers, 1900–1904
- Chapter Five: The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905
- Chapter Six: Special Relativity, 1905
- Chapter Seven: The Happiest Thought, 1906–1909
- Chapter Eight: The Wandering Professor, 1909–1914
- Chapter Nine: General Relativity, 1911–1915
- Chapter Ten: Divorce, 1916–1919
- Chapter Eleven: Einstein’s Universe, 1916–1919
- Chapter Twelve: Fame, 1919
- Chapter Thirteen: The Wandering Zionist, 1920–1921
- Chapter Fourteen: Nobel Laureate, 1921–1927
- Chapter Fifteen: Unified Field Theories, 1923–1931
- Chapter Sixteen: Turning Fifty, 1929–1931
- Chapter Seventeen: Einstein’s God
- Chapter Eighteen: The Refugee, 1932–1933
- Chapter Nineteen: America, 1933–1939
- Chapter Twenty: Quantum Entanglement, 1935
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Bomb, 1939–1945
- Chapter Twenty-Two: One-Worlder, 1945–1948
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Landmark, 1948–1953
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Red Scare, 1951–1954
- Chapter Twenty-Five: The End, 1955
- Epilogue: Einstein’s Brain and Einstein’s Mind
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Illustration Credits
- Copyright
- Endnotes