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Title: Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye ISBN: 0-14-100221-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Engaging Account of the Man of the Century
Comment: The first comment that comes to mind about Einstein in Love is that Overbye can really write well; I find the prose to be much more enjoyable than that of any other Einstein book I am aware of. Overbye also does a good job of at least attempting to explain relativity to a lay reader, while also not ignoring the other important works of the young Einstein on Brownian motion, gravity, etc. I do find the title more than a little misleading, though - Einstein's marriages to Mileva and Elsa and his dalliances with others seem to have little connection at all with the progress of his scientific thought. I suspect that the title is little more than a device to capture attention and sell books. I also find it odd that the book just seems to end for no apparent reason around the time of his divorce from Mileva. Still, if you want a good read about a true genius and his early life and works, this is one of the better places to turn - just don't expect much "scientific romance," except for the beauty pouring out of Einstein's head.
Rating: 5
Summary: An all-too-human genius
Comment: In this book Overbye has adroitly blended Einstein's often-difficult personal relationships with the discoveries that made him the most celebrated scientist in a century during which there was no shortage of brilliant scientific minds. All in all, I found it one of the most engagingly-written and informative histories of science I've ever encountered.
One cannot read this work without wondering how the author was able to lay his hands on, and then digest, that mountain of material -- epistolary, journalistic, and geographic. It would appear that he read hundreds and hundreds of letters and visited every locale of importance to Einstein in the first four decades of his life.
I would recommend this book for anyone with an interest in knowing how scientific progress happens. Overbye's thoughfully-constructed and lucid explanations should, moreover, prove of particular value to those whose previous exposure to physics has left them with the desire for a fuller understanding of some of its more complex principles.
For me, not least among this work's plusses was that it attached names that had been little more than textbook entries -- Planck's constant, Wien's law, Bohr atom, Born-Haber cycle, and many others -- to real people. Einstein's universe did, after all, include real people.
Rating: 5
Summary: Albert consumed with passion
Comment: "Einstein in Love" opened a new door to the rich and immensely eventful life of one great scientist, Albert Einstein. It is quite amazing that a whole community of people are, more than before, dedicated to unravelling more about the life of Albert. Overbye's books does a lot to humanise the early years of Albert till around the early 1920s. This is the first book I have read about Albert, and I cannot compare it to other similarly-aimed books, but I can say that Overbye's account, the result of years of research, gives us lots of insight into Albert's personality: the innocence of a person who's first love was science, his numerous romances, his escapades, the Albert-Mileva menagerie, the friends he had. This books say a lot about how Albert went about constructing his view of physics, and how he managed to live in different societies. It is a must read for anyone interested in knowing more about Albert before 1920.
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Title: Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos : The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye ISBN: 0316648965 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Albert Einstein/Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein, Jurgen Renn, Robert Schulmann, Shawn Smith ISBN: 0691088861 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl by Michelle Zackheim, Michele Zackheim ISBN: 1573221279 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: In Albert's Shadow: The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife by Mileva Einstein-Maric, Milan Popovic ISBN: 080187856X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Einstein : A Life by Denis Brian ISBN: 0471193623 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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