Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's accessible life of Einstein: the rebellious patent clerk, the miracle year, fame, politics, the long failed search for unification. Strong on how imagination and nonconformity made the science possible.
Read it if…
you want to understand Einstein as a thinker and a person.
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Skip it if…
you want the physics in depth.
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Three things you will actually use
- Question the assumptions everyone accepts.
- Imagination over memorization.
- Nonconformity has a price and a payoff.
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Read the 1905 chapters.
Our verdict
Imagination, biographically.
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