Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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Book Reviews of Einstein: His Life and Universe
Book Review: This book is really deep.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is really long, and deep. Be prepared! The book gives an excellent history of Einstein all the way from his childhood up until his death. You will read all the classic stories - how he wasn't the greatest student, mostly because he was bored in school. He wanted to study what was of interest to him, not what was in the curriculum.
The accounts of his interpersonal relationships are interesting. He wasn't the unfeeling analytical type that people assume he would be. He had his own struggles with love and family, just as all of us do.
This book is very scientific and reads like a text book in some parts. Be prepared to spend some quiet time reading it in small doses. You will get to know all of the interesting facets of Einstein's personality and realize that is was human, too.
Book Review: best einstein book out there
Summary: 5 Stars
This is hands down the best Einstein book available today. The author goes above and beyond any expectations i had. He some of the best research i have ever seen in a book. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
I have read several Einstein books and this is the absolute best. It covered everything i have read in the other books and went far beyond that.
The author (Isaacson) makes this book very easy to read and follow (although he does use a lot of scientific terms, which he has to). I really couldnt put the book down.
If you're looking for an excellent book about the life of Einstein from first-hand research this is your book. And the price can't be beat. I thought i would be spending 30+ but its less than 20 anywhere. ENJOY!
Book Review: Very well written...bravo
Summary: 5 Stars
Biographies of scientists are rarely balanced; they are either focused on their science on completely on everything but their life's' work. Walter Isaacson's book does a wonderful job of telling his life story like a story. You almost feel like growing up with Einstein through this thinking, his childhood troubles, his teenage loves, his professional struggles, his family struggles, evolution of his thinking on scientific matters and reflection of his philosophy of life and science.
Additionally physics is introduced in a very approachable manner and can be understood by most laymen. I highly recommend this book if you want to know Einstein as a person and understand how he discovered his revolutionary theories.
Book Review: The last book on Einstein?
Summary: 5 Stars
Many books have been written about Einstein, this might be the last.
How could a more authoritative biography be written? The explanatory notes, bibliography, and index runs over a hundred pages! Yet for all the details, the story stays fresh -- even dramatic.
The personal life of Einstein is recounted with honesty, and compassion. The scientific principles involved are explained clearly, but without undue over simplification.
Simply put, if you are at inteterested in reading a defintitive and facsinating biography of one great personas of the 20th Century, this book is a definite buy.
Book Review: an informative and engrossing portrait
Summary: 5 Stars
Einstein and his earlier book, Kissinger: A Biography, should be read one after the other to see how Isaacson deals with two professionally different, but similar, persons who have had great effect on the US and the world. Both left Nazi Germany to escape persecution and rose to the top of their fields. As a bonus, the two biographies challenge the reader in physics and world politics, as well as generate new interest in these fields.