'imaginative nonconformity.' That willingness to go contrary Isaacson stresses that a key to Einstein's remarkableĭepartures from the physics that had come down from Newton was his Indicates about the thinking of both men. In what follows, we will discuss what the book That genre, either accepting or providing a gloss for the sentiments Republic and The Nation in the United States.

Generations of intellectuals who during his lifetime wrote for the New Outlook on life, people and society was rather representative of the Although alwaysĭistinctive by virtue of his own inimitable persona, Einstein's Ideological frame of reference as his biographer. Of life and thinking on social issues, together with Isaacson's own Twentieth century intellectual culture by Albert Einstein's manner Social, political and economic studies, is what we are told about What interests us most, however, in the context of this journal on For the educated layman who is not himself a physicist, thisīook deserves a place alongside Brian Greene's fascinating Theįabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. Nobel Prize), the Special and General Theories of Relativity, theĬurvature of 'spacetime,' the mysteries of Quantum Theory, and Photoelectric effect (for which, oddly enough, Einstein won his only It is a highly intelligent introduction to such things as the law of the Leaving readers with as many questions as it answers. Into the advanced theories of the past century, while necessarily What it does do is to provide a lucid window Einstein: His LifeĪnd Universe serves its readers well by settling for something farĭifferent than a textbook. People's grasp (including this reviewer's). Toĭo that would have lost readers in material far beyond most Were wise not to attempt an exhaustive study of contemporary physics. The ten-part series based on it that began its run in April 2017, they When Walter Isaacson wrote this book and National Geographic did (Basis for Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series, 2017, APA style: Einstein: His Life and Universe.Einstein: His Life and Universe.' Retrieved from 2017 Council for Social and Economic Studies 01 Jun. MLA style: 'Einstein: His Life and Universe.' The Free Library.

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