Einstein (Unabridged)
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4.6 • 191 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein 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.
Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, “an illuminating delight” (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.
Customer Reviews
Demystifies Einstein
While Einstein should be revered, pop culture tends to put him on a pedestal as a god like figure. Walter Isaacson demystifies and humanizes the greatest mind of the 20th century. Not enough great things I can say about this book, it really pulls the curtains back on his life and gives you a glimpse of how Einstein operated and tried to keep things as simple as possible while finding the synergy’s in nature. Seeing the physical world in math and applying thought experiments in an unprecedented manner. Meanwhile showing moments of being normal by forgetting where he lived or getting stuck on a body of water. The book demonstrates how Einstein himself almost seemed to operate in parallel universes, extricating himself from the world to do thought experiments and coming back and participating as a global citizen. He never claimed to know it all, was humble and it is this trait that is identified throughout the book that makes you fall in love with the human that Einstein was. Highly Recommend!!
Good if you’re knowledgeable in physics
It’s very well written but the physics talk is very technical if you’ve never taken a physics class