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Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius (Paperback)
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius (Paperback)
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Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein
revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general
theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet
in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most
working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends.
This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest
successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best
assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well
as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came
to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same
traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. David Bodanis
traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his
professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence
in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest
strength and his ultimate undoing. He was a fallible genius. An
intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist,
Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals how much we owe Einstein today
- and how much more he might have achieved if not for his
all-too-human flaws.
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