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Einstein: His Life and Universe

Everyone THINKS that they know the man - But do we?

Can we really understand genius?

Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson
Published: 10 April, 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $17.10 USD

This very informative book takes us into the personal life behind the public legend as well as his vision of the 'World as we Know it' concept.

If you need to know more - this very informative book digs deeper than ever before.

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What makes a genius?

Do you like to read biographies in order to see if there is something in the life of others that you can use to enrich your own life. If so, then a fair question for this biography is "what made Einstein such a genius?"

Isaacson suggests that Einstein's genius was a function of his unique thinking ability and his lifelong rebellious attitude. Einstein apparently thought more in pictures than words. Isaacson suggests some reasons for that. He also suggests that Einstein was able to keep a sense of wonder about nature even as his thinking matured which allowed him to explore ideas that adults simply don't dwell on. For example, what would it be like to ride alongside a light beam?

Einstein seems to have been born with a rebellious nature. This gave him the freedom to question the conventional wisdom of the physics as it existed at the time.

I appreciate the fact that Isaacson gives us plenty of data from which to draw our own conclusions, including the very interesting story of what happened to Einstein's brain after his death.

You be the judge!

A Very Impressive Man!

"Einstein" provides an excellent summary of his life, contributions, and peccadilloes (a bit of a ladies' man, an on/off relationship with his sons), and the sometimes massive mischaracterizations made of him.

For example, Einstein was slow learning to talk, and thus labeled "the dopey one" by the family maid. He resented memorization, and likened his early teachers to "drill sergeants" forcing rote memorization. Other strong dislikes included nationalism, anything military (though he later made an exception for those fighting Hitler and Nazi Germany), and anything limiting freedom of thought/expression. Yet, despite a constant willingness to challenge established convention, humility was another major Einstein trait.

Despite turning physics upside down while working as a 3rd-class patent examiner, it took another nine years (four after receiving his doctorate) for Einstein to receive a junior professorship. Nonetheless, his scientific contributions unabated, and he even learned new mathematical approaches (non-Euclidean geometry, tensor analysis) to further his insights.

Initially agnostic, in later life Einstein declared a belief in a supreme being, though not of the type favored by most - instead Einstein believed in a non-interventionist/non-judgemental God that had the wisdom to create a world with such consistency. This also led Einstein to believe in a deterministic world, and reject quantum mechanics (probabilistic behavior of atomic particles) - a major error that helped stymie his scientific contributions in later life.

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Another major contribution was, after learning of initial German forays, Einstein's early support (and follow-up) for U.S. research into creating an atomic bomb. (Ironically, Hitler's expulsion of leading Jewish scientists probably assured Germany of its failure to succeed in this area.) Despite his important role in initiating the Manhattan Project, FBI bumbling resulted in his being denied an Army security clearance.

The only "bad news" about "Einstein" is that I still don't understand ALL OF his Theory of Relativity; the "good news" is that I did gain some understanding from it, as well as the knowledge that I am far from the only one with a very incomplete understanding - even his wife admitted not understanding it.

Dr. Albert Einstein the genius is well served in an elegantly written and researched in this popular biography

Dr. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) began his life as a German Jew in Ulm in the late nineteenth century. His mother was a beauty; his father a businessman in the electronics field. Einstein was a genius who was also a born rebel.

He did well scholastically in school disdaining the strict Prussian rote learning in German education. Einstein was a man in love with imagination, curiosity and an intense desire to seek out why things work and the secrets of the cosmos we all inhabit. He once imagined what it would be like to ride a light beam!!!!

His genius was a combination of high intellectual abilities linked with an imagination that forced him to seek for answers. Einstein was creative; moody; a loner and a lover of women. He had several affairs in his life. His first marriage to a fellow physics student ended in divorce.

Einstein loved his two sons and gave his wife the money he won for the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. He later married a cousin with whom he lived until her death. This marriage was childless. One of his many affairs was with a Russian spy! Einstein did not know this during the conduct of the romance. Despite a fat FBI file he was never a Communist but was a liberal democrat. He became an American citizen in 1940.

Einstein fled from Hitler's Germany living the last 22 years of his life as a professor at the Advance Institute at Princeton. He is the father of quantam physics though he later disagreed with scientists like Heisenberg on this aspect of science. His theory of relativity made him famous.

He became friends with such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Sigmund Freud, Niels Bohr, Madam Curie; Robert Oppenheimer and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Einstein was gentle, loving and eccentric. He often wore no socks, old clothing and had trouble finding his keys (he never learned to drive a car), He loved his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey. He loved children, pets and humanity.

Einstein could be isolated and grumpy but overall the impression of him is a great genius who loved humanity in the mass. His concept of God bears an affinity with the Deistic belief of a God who creates but does not interfere in human history through miracles.

Einstein is famed for his remark "God does not play dice with the universe" but was a secular Jew who did not practice the faith. He turned down an offer to become the President of the State of Israel. Most of his great work was accomplished before his 40th birthday while working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern.

Einstein enjoyed walking, bicycling and playing violin. He loved the music of Mozart and had a limited social life with close friends. Einstein was complex and a man of incredible genius. He lives as a giant of science.

Walter Isaacson the renowned biographer of Benjamin Franklin has done a good job with this biography of Einstein.

As an English major I did get lost at times in trying to understand relativity and the enigmas of quantum physics. The book, though, can be understood by the general reader.

Einstein is one of the great men of the 20th century. This biography is the best popular account of his life. Read it and learn.

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