Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance

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Summary: This book puts you in Einstein¿s shoes!
Review: This is an outstanding book! New York Times science writer, Overbye spent years researching Einstein's letters, he traveled places Einstein lived, studied, worked and climbed. This tremendous amount of work done by Overbye combined with his excellent writing style pays off! His depiction of early 1900s era is so vivid and detailed that I almost could smell Zurich and Prague of that time and talk to Einstein's family and colleagues. Einstein was in love with far more than one woman, but his greatest love - theoretical physics and search for truth - are treated extensively as well. The book is not intended and cannot be considered as an introduction to relativity theory. Nevertheless, I have been so moved by engaging treatment of relativity that I found on Internet Einstein's 1905 paper in English translation (the first part of this paper does not require math beyond 8-th grade, yet leaves you with dizzying feeling of turning the world upside down). I highly recommend this book!