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Who Was Albert Einstein?
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Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed.
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Full of Information!.......2007-05-16
I thought Who Was Albert Einstein? was a great book. Hats off to Jess Brallier! I have read this book two or three times, which is rare for me, since I do not like to re-read things, so that must tell you how good this book is! I learned a lot of things like he was born on March 14, 1879, he had two wives, he wasn't the best father (in his own words), his brain is floating around in a jar today, 52 years after his death, and many more interesting things! You should read this book, and I would even recommend it to adults!!!
perfect for my 3rd grader.......2007-05-14
I thought this was a great book for my daughter who is in 3rd grade. She enjoys biographies and was interested in getting to know more about Albert Einstein. She read this one in about a week, a faster reader could finish it in a day or two. I have a few other selections from this series in my wish list.
wonderful series.......2007-05-13
This book contains many facts about Albert Einstein that may be new to you. Although I have several books about this man, this remains my favorite. In fact when a student's father accidentally spilled his coffee on it, I knew I had to get a new one for the classroom library.
Great subject for a children book.......2007-03-25
Great subject for a children book. I got this series of books for my daughter and she really enjoyes reading them. Great read and educational too.
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E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. Mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances."
Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.
Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well; namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--a view that would change the world. --Gregory McNamee
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Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews-this "little masterpiece"* sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.
"This is not a physics book. It is a history of where the equation [E=mc2] came from and how it has changed the world. After a short chapter on the equation's birth, Bodanis presents its five symbolic ancestors in sequence, each with its own chapter and each with rich human stories of achievement and failure, encouragement and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge. Readers meet not only famous scientists at their best and worst but also such famous and infamous characters as Voltaire and Marat...Bodanis includes detailed, lively and fascinating back matter...His acknowledgements end, 'I loved writing this book.' It shows." (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"E=mc2, focusing on the 1905 theory of special relativity, is just what its subtitle says it is: a biography of the world's most famous equation, and it succeeds beautifully. For the first time, I really feel that I understand the meaning and implications of that equation, as Bodanis takes us through each symbol separately, including the = sign...there is a great 'aha!' awaiting the lay reader." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"'The equation that changed everything' is familiar to even the most physics-challenged, but it remains a fuzzy abstraction to most. Science writer Bodanis makes it a lot more clear." (Discover)
"Excellent...With wit and style, he explains every factor in the world's most famous and least understood equation....Every page is rich with surprising anecdotes about everything from Einstein's youth to the behind-the-scenes workings of the Roosevelt administration. Here's a prediction: E=mc2 is one of those odd, original, and handsomely written books that will prove more popular than even its publisher suspects." (Nashville Scene)
"You'll learn more in these 300 pages about folks like Faraday, Lavoisier, Davy and Rutherford than you will in many a science course...a clearly written, astonishingly understandable book that celebrates human achievement and provides some idea of the underlying scientific orderliness and logic that guides the stars and rules the universe." (Parade )
"Bodanis truly has a gift for bringing his subject matter to life." (Library Journal [starred review] )
"Entertaining...With anecdotes and illustrations, Bodanis effectively opens up E=mc2 to the widest audience." (Booklist )
"Accessible...he seeks, and deserves, many readers who know no physics. They'll learn a handful-more important, they'll enjoy it, and pick up a load of biographical and cultural curios along the way." (Publishers Weekly)
Customer Reviews:
Wildly disappointing.......2007-10-10
This book starts out fairly well, with a chapter apiece for every part of the equation--energy, mass, the speed of light, even the symbols for equals and squared--but quickly devolves into a generally poorly researched, incomplete, fluffy, dumbed down work.
It's mostly enjoyable, but it never explains how exactly Einstein came up with his theory--instead referring the reader to the author's website if he or she would like to know more! It never really explains how the equation became so famous (as it seems a real biography of the equation would), and it left me feeling that I'd gotten a faint grasp of the equation despite this book's clunky attempts at explaining it to me, not at all because of it.
This could have been way more interesting in the hands of a better writer, but as it is the book is informative...but condescending and hollow. I started reading it out loud to my wife, a microbiology major, and she lost interest and told me to finish it by myself. The writing is not exciting, and the most interesting science aspects of the book have been dealt with better elswewhere.
Plus, everything from the layout of the text to the padded way the author cites quotes suggests he was desperate to fill a word count, more interested in that than it doing this story justice.
The book is okay, but I don't recommend it.
Interesting History of Science.......2007-09-21
This is not a book for people who are looking to learn science. It is a book for people who want to learn about scientists. Bodanis includes lots of fascinating biographical snippets, some about people, such as Emilie du Châtelet, who are entirely overlooked in most textbook histories. His book is a great introduction for those who want to fill in some of the gaps in their knowledge about the people who created modern civilization.
Simple equation, enormous implications.......2007-09-13
A well written story about this famous equation, its history, and perhaps it's future. I STILL don't fully understand it all, but hey, the author tried.
Another masterpiece by Bodanis.......2007-07-20
David Bodanis as a way of writing that one can enjoy. I love all his work and this book was no disappointment. A masterful mix of history and physics that makes science come alive. I can recommend all Bodanis's books.
Even more undrstanding.......2007-04-14
This was a splendid documenation of the actions and thoughts of the individuals involved in the revelations of the most important discoveries in physics ever made. It was told in an exceptionally clear manner by the author. It was very obvious that his research was thorough. He also documented all his discoveries so that the reader could easily do more research.
Personally, I had a hard time putting it down even though I have read other books on the subject. It is the best technical writing I can remember.
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ordinary genius.......2007-01-11
I love this book it gave me alot of great information, I did'nt have to go to other sources to get information about his life. I'm doing a report on his life for a school project. I'm going to dress like he did and memorize a speech I'm going to write and then give it in front of my school and all the parents of our school.
Sean Delgado Per.3 (Ordiary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein).......2006-03-31
Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3
The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.
I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.
What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.
My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.
Sean Delgado Per.3 (Ordiary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein).......2006-03-31
Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3
The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.
I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.
What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.
My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.
Sean Delgado Per.3 (Ordiary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein).......2006-03-31
Ordinary Genius: The Story of albert Einstein
By: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Retold by: S.Delgado
Per.3
The book talks about Alberts life, his ideas and his accomplishments. It talked about from his childhood to his death. Albert was born in March 14, 1879 and died in April 18, 1955. he lived with his family along with his two siblings. When Albert was a child the first thing that he saw that changed his life was a compass. He wondered how the compass always go north when he goes to a different direction. Albert loved science and mathematics when ever he went to school. After years past Albert looked up books and writing eqautions that could make whatever Albert thinks it is possible. when he thought up of ideas and eqautions, He became the worlds famous scientist.
I liked how they talked about what his eqautions mean, what were his eqautions, what did E=mc2 mean, and what is the theory of relativity. The Theory of Relativity is the motion at a constant speed. E=mc2 means energy equals mass of energy times speed of light two times.
What I disliked about the book was that it does not tell when he created his inventions or when did he enroll in his schools, for example it will tell when did he thought up of the E=mc2 or when did he enroll in the university.
My favorite part of the book was one of Alberts ideas saying that if your toy car is going at 2 mph and then put the toy car while running on a 100 mph train and the car would be going 102 mph. If you place a light that goes 186,282 mps on a train, the light still travels the same mps, the speed never changes.
An Informative Book.......2000-01-31
This book is very informative. It is a great way to find information about Albert Einstein. I wrote a wonderful report using the information in this book. It explains his theorys of relativity in a simple understandable way.
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Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth century's leading minds.
Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Through his words, you can understand the man and gain his insight on social, religious, and educational issues.
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Essays of the last fifteen years .......2005-06-26
This volume collects essays of the last fifteen years of his life. The work has sections on 'Convictions and Beliefs' 'Science and Life' ' Public Affairs' ' Personalities' and 'His own people: The Jews"
The work features expositions of some of Einstein's major scientific work.
Among the personalities written about are Gandhi who Einstein greatly admires, Newton, Kepler, Planck, Madame Curie, Langevin, and lesser known figures Paul Ehrenfest,Carl von Ossietsky.
Einstein writes much about the terrible changes in Germany he saw in his own lifetime, the rise of Nazism and Anti- Semitism.
He writes about the creation of a national homeland for the Jews, his own Zionism, and his own connection with the Jewish people.
He writes too about his conception of world- peace, about the threat to the world brought about something he is no small part a contributor to, the harnessing of the atom.
In writing about himself in the opening section of the work he says, "I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is embarassing to earn so much love and respect for it."
He celebrates the life of thought , of the solitary individual .
Einstein is the greatest modern example of Keynes dictum of how it is 'ideas' that change the world. He is the example of how one man alone , thinking, transformed our understanding of nature, and our power to change it.
In these essays the main interests of Einstein's life are touched upon. He writes with clarity and modesty.
An invaluable opportunity to be in touch with ' the Mind that defined an Age'.
Perfect for Travel, Quick Reads.......2000-03-24
Out of my Later Years is a collection of Einstein's speeches and articles covering not just physics but his thoughts on the social condition of man, of Jews, and of war as well as several speeches about the likes of Max Planck, Mahatma Gandhi, and Marie Curie.
As letters and speeches, these are written as the ordinary man that Einstein once was - very easy to read and understand. Even some of the physics lectures are understandable. Each is relatively short making this perfect for when you want to read something of substance but don't have much time.
The sections on Public Affairs are especially haunting as Einstein presents his arguments for the "global village" and advocated someting akin to the current U.N. - things that began to come into their own after his passing. In particular, there is an interchange between him and a group of Communist scientists that underlines the Cold War tension in its height and is a chilling read now in the Post Soviet Union age.
A different man.......2000-01-05
I found Einstein's desire to start a rock band at such an early age very surprising. A man before his time for sure. Singing about relativity while distancing himself from the groupies must have been difficult. The book reads like a good guitar riff, jolting one's mind from time to time. Excellent!
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Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker, who asked whether he believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, and exchange about fine music with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism are but some of the highlights found in this rare, warm enriching book.
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Einstein, the Human side.......2007-02-13
It is so good now I want to buy his biography!
Einstein the mensch .......2005-06-26
Einstein's longtime secretary (1928-1955) Helen Dukas and Professor Banesh Hoffman who together had written a biography of Einstein here collect some of his correspondance, his very humane replies on a great variety of subjects.
The work is small but it does reveal Einstein's character. His humor and modesty and wisdom are everywhere in evidence. Einstein's writing often has an aphoristic quality, and there are many memorable sayings in the work.
A small sample of them follow:
" As for the search for truth ,I know from my own painful searching , with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant."
"With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is, and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.But one has to take it all with good humor"
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but recognized intuitively as meaningful ,then we are engaged in art.Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concern and volition."
This volume touches upon many sides of Einstein, his humanitarianism, devotion to peace, his Zionism, his sense of the beauty that is to be revealed through the objective understanding of the universe."
The book takes the form of the questions his correspondents asked ( Most often given in paraphrased form by the authors of the book) and Einstein's responses to their questions.
If I had one question to ask him it would be, " How is it that it was given to one human being in one relatively short period of time to totally transform Mankind's understanding of nature? Why do you think that you were the one given this miraculous power?
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The Einstein revealed in these writings is witty, keenly perceptive, and deeply concerned for humanity. Einstein believed in the possibility of a peaceful world and in the high mission of science to serve human well-being. As we near the end of a century in which science has come to seem more and more remote from human values, Einstein's perspective is indispensable.
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Enlightning.......2007-05-09
The book could have been structured a little better, but noone can argue with the words of Einstein. Several of the quotes in the book are about random and old-time topics that were lost on me, only being 23. However, this is still an amazing glipse into the man that changed the 20th Centery.
Brilliant Scientist and Great Humanitarian.......2006-06-06
Albert Einstein as I see it was one of the greatest humanitarians that ever lived. His brilliance and simplicity of thought shines through on many of his complex theories. You come away saying "Why didn't I think of that? It is so simple!" Einstein's humor is dazzling to match and rounds out my perception of this wonderful unique human being. I enjoyed this book.
There is a more comprehensive and cheaper book out there!!!.......2006-05-18
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This book (first published in 1934) contains brief writings of physicist Albert Einstein (1879 to 1955), one of the most creative intellects of the twentieth century. It contains articles (speeches, letters, statements, etc.) from early in his career.
This book gives a personal portrait of the man behind the scientific legend.
The book itself is divided into four parts:
(1) The world as I see it (about 30 articles). This is my favorite part.
(2) Politics and pacifism (almost 20 articles). Einstein was a pacifist (one who opposes the use of force under any circumstances).
(3) Germany (3 articles). Einstein was born in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany. (He later emigrated to the United States in late 1932.)
(4) The Jews (just over 10 articles). Einstein was Jewish.
Finally, if this book is so good, then why did I give it the rating I did? Two reasons.
First, there is a much more comprehensive book that also has gathered Einstein's writings. It is called "Ideas and Opinions" (first published in 1954 and sold by Amazon). It contains almost all the articles (it excludes seven) contained in "The World as I See It." As well, it contains selected articles from other publications (most notably the books "Out of my Later Years" and "Mein Weltbild.")
As well, the book "Ideas and Opinions" has a fifth part called `Contributions to Science' (which contains almost 20 articles). Here, Einstein discusses topics such as relativity, theoretical physics, science, and gravitation. He even gives tributes to such people as Isaac Newton and Copernicus.
Second, this book's price. It costs $9.20 and you get 65 articles. But the hardcopy version of "Ideas and Opinions" costs about $6.00 and you get 120 articles (almost double the amount)!! (Note that all prices quoted are as of May 2006.)
In conclusion, instead of this book, I recommend the more comprehensive and cheaper book called "Ideas and Opinions." In my opinion, this recommended book is the definitive collection if Albert Einstein's popular writings!!!
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great book!.......2006-02-26
I found this book in my uncle's library. After hearing some islamist authors were interpreting Einstein's book as a proof of "science without religion is not science etc" I have decided to read this book . Then I realized those writers never really read this book and they were talking non sense it was just a sentence from this book.
The book is nice, he is not only a scientist also a philosoph. It helped me to look at some of the things with a different point of view.
The world as Einstein sees it .......2005-06-26
This volume consists of writings of Einstein collected in the year 1932. Another Amazon reviewer has pointed out that it omits Einstein's writings on science which he rightfully says is something like speaking about Mozart without speaking about his music.
Yet Einstein was already by 1932 a world - figure. And one of the great tests of his life, and proofs of his being , beside a great genius, a very decent and moral human being , was the way he reacted to the Nazis. When they were beginning their racist attacks on the Jews, Einstein proudly announced his Jewish origin. Instead of trying to play up to authority as did for instance Heidegger he showed an ability to sacrifice his own private position within Germany , then the great center of scientific research.
This volume contains a chapter on his relation to the Germany of the time. It also contains a more extensive chapter on his relation to the Jews, to the building of a homeland , to the conception of peace between Jew and Arab in the Holy Land.
The volume opens with Einstein's reflections on the meaning of life, and on the way he sees the world. They come , I think, very much out of his own sense of himself. Einstein highly prized the private individual. He believed that the individual did not exist to be absorbed in or be a slave to the State, but rather the State existed in order to enable individuals to pursue their lives and creative endeavors. In this work he champions the political system of the United States because he believes it best enables individuals to find their way to real creative and productive human endeavor.
He says,"The real valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State, but the creative, sentient,individual , the personality: it alone creates the noble and sublime."
Einstein in his humble away talks about the dependence of the individual, of himself on the contributions of so many others in society.
And he talks about the fundamental values for which he has lived, Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
When one thinks of the other outsized giant of science, Newton and compares Einstein with him, one is again struck at how remarkable it is that a person of Einstein's incredible genius in scientific work, should also have been in so many ways a decent, sane, moral human being.
Mankind is enriched by his being one of us.
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The name "Einstein" evokes images of genius, but was Albert Einstein, in fact, a plagiarist, who copied the theories of Lorentz, Poincare, Gerber, and Hilbert? A scholarly documentation of Albert Einstein's plagiarism of the theory of relativity, "Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist" discloses Einstein's method for manipulating credit for the work of his contemporaries, reprints the prior works he parroted, and demonstrates through formal logical argument that Albert Einstein could not have drawn the conclusions he drew without prior knowledge of the works he copied, but failed to reference. Numerous republished quotations from Einstein's contemporaries prove that they were aware of his plagiarism.
"The appearance of Dr. Silberstein's recent article on 'General Relativity without the Equivalence Hypothesis' encourages me to restate my own views on the subject. I am perhaps entitled to do this as my work on the subject of General Relativity was published before that of Einstein and Kottler, and appears to have been overlooked by recent writers." -- Harry Bateman
"All this was maintained by Poincare and others long before the time of Einstein, and one does injustice to truth in ascribing the discovery to him." -- Charles Nordmann
"[Einstein's] paper 'Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Koerper' in Annalen der Physik. . . contains not a single reference to previous literature. It gives you the impression of quite a new venture. But that is, of course, as I have tried to explain, not true." -- Max Born
"In point of fact, therefore, Poincare was not only the first to enunciate the principle, but he also discovered in Lorentz's work the necessary mathematical formulation of the principle. All this happened before Einstein's paper appeared." -- G. H. Keswani
"Einstein's explanation is a dimensional disguise for Lorentz's. . . . Thus Einstein's theory is not a denial of, nor an alternative for, that of Lorentz. It is only a duplicate and disguise for it. . . . Einstein continually maintains that the theory of Lorentz is right, only he disagrees with his 'interpretation.' Is it not clear, therefore, that in this, as in other cases, Einstein's theory is merely a disguise for Lorentz's, the apparent disagreement about 'interpretation' being a matter of words only?" -- James Mackaye
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -- Albert Einstein
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The end of another taboo.......2006-12-19
That Einstein was not the original genius that his adulators have made him out to be was always known to those more familiar with his "borrowing". However, to my mind this is the first thoroughly documented revisionist treatment of the subject. If nothing else, it should prompt the legions of his admirers to issue forth a rebuttal to the serious charges brought forth. Such is the nature of scholarship.
Like other taboos of contemporary culture, the Einstein question should not be declared hands off from more close scrutiny. Yet judging from the largely ad hominem nature of the contra reviews elicted by this site, one must not be overly sanguine about the possibilities. The reduction of Liberal icons like Albert Einstein to more realistic proportions will not be an easy task, as the case of other media-propelled heroes of the twentieth century such as Marx, Freud, Lenin, and Picasso bears out. Those who have a vested interest in maintaining silence on controversial subjects will not throw up the white flag without a fight-- all the more reason to perservere in the struggle. Let the facts be known and may the chips fall where they may.
Nonsense for the credulous.......2006-04-18
Readers who have taken Bjerknes's claims seriously should be aware that he wrote the following nonsense about Einstein that is fully in accord with the views of the neo-Nazi Stormfront.org:
"The political Zionists, Albert Einstein chief racist among them, embraced the myth that anti-Semitism is the salvation of the 'Jewish race', in that it forces Jews to segregate against their will and better natures. Einstein hated non-racist Jews, though he himself had married a non-Jew... Jewish racists helped to put Hitler into power in order to herd up the Jews of Europe and force them into segregation."
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John Stachel, Professor Emeritus at the Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University
has a devastating review of Bjerknes's book [...]
Quite Reasonable.......2006-01-31
I agree with some comments of reviewers that this book could be written in a better style. I can also understand other readers being sceptical of such seemingly "outlandish" claims as Einstein being a plagiarist.
However, I found this book to be an extremely valuable resource of information that is otherwise very difficult to locate. My library has two books by Bjerknes' and I read his book on general relativity first. Both books combined provide some really powerful evidence, and even if you are sceptical, then some good historical information. I canot find his other books.
Material presented in this book shows that the fact that Einstein was not original is a well-known fact in science community. I think these topics should be discussed further.
Enough Revisionism!.......2006-01-29
Bjerknes book is very weak and more along the lines of a national enquirer essay. His sources are weak. His logic is weaker.
Scientific essays are often based on the work which preceded them. Science is the study the observable world and drawing conclusions which can be tested, proved or refuted. Usually these theories are not created in a box but with a knowledge of the thoughts and work of others. Einstein did not live in a box but studied the works of Newton, Poncaire, Mach and the rest. Like most scientists he added his own tremendous insight and deductive skills to the problems of the day and came up with a totally unqiue way of evaluating cosmology.
The simple truth is that in a scientific paper such as Einstein`s field theory, (or any other) the reference is inherent in the mathmatics. You can't write a formula and claim it as your own as others are familiar with the formula and will know the source. But when known formulations are used to derive new equations, that derivation is a unique entity. Did Galileo plagarize Copernicus? Did Kepler? Did Newton plagarize Euclid? Did Oppenheimer plagarize Einstein? The truth is there were many thoughts about relativism and open vs closed universes etc etc before Einstein. It was Einstein who put all the previous discussions in persepctive to come up with his original theory on special and general relativity, no one else came up with curved space as a dimension beyond our senses but not beyond our rational capacity to understand.
Eisntein is regareded as one of the greatest minds of humanity because he truly was a intellectual and humanist giant among us. He did not plagarize or cheat, he did good science.
Giants always are targets of lesser minds who choose for uncertain motives to attack and slander. Einstein, fortunately, is one giant that forever will stand.
Hype, mascarading as research........2005-12-31
Bjerknes spends 400+ pages attacking Einstein for not being an honest author and yet CJB's disclaimer on page 4 loudly proclaims (along with all of the comma splices!), that CJB is equally dishonest "Neither the author, nor the publisher, guarantees the completeness, or the accuracy, or the adequacy, of any information in this book." At first, I thought this was a bunch of legalese, but once I got into the book I realized that about half the book is authorial conjecture and mental naval-gazing that wouldn't (and couldn't) stand up in a court of law. Although almost half the book is dedicated to sitations and sources, it's a truly shameful and amateur effort on Bjerknes' behalf; in the hands of a better writer (any OTHER writer), a strong and coherent argument could be made for Einstein's plagiarism- given all the source material. Bjerknes' rants, which can only be interpretted as anti-semitism, color all the material in such a way as to cause even the most die-hard critic of Einstein to have a change of heart. It's really an embarrassing effort for the author and a waste of money and time for us, the reader.
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When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert's strange childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem solving: the mystery of a compass's swirling needle, the intricacies of Mozart's music, the secrets of geometryset his mind spinning with ideas. In fact, Albert Einstein's ideas were destined to change the way we know and understand the world and our place in the universe. In spare, precise text filled with graceful detail and accompanied by sometimes humorous, sometimes lonely portraits, Don Brown introduces us to the less than magnificent beginnings of an odd boy out. The result is a tender rendering of the adventures of growing up for one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.
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Relatively (ha ha) good.......2005-10-03
If every adult biographer has his or her own personal style, why should the case be any different for children's book biographers? And when it comes to picture book biographies, certain names come to mind. David Adler, of course, though his books are so uncommonly dull that I tend to pity the children I hand them to (being a children's librarian and all). Peter Sis, though his bios require a great deal of time and patience to parse. James Rumford to some extent, though "Sequoyah" is probably his best bio to date. No, when it comes down to it Don Brown is the picture book biographer that nine of ten kids prefer every time. I don't have any actual statistics to back that statement up, I just say what I see. And what I see is an author who is able to take unknown heroes (Mary Kingsley, Alice Ramsey, Ruth Law, etc.) and too well-known heroes (Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, etc.) and give them interesting picture book biographies that kids will both relate to and love.
We all know some basic facts about Einstein. He was a guy with a head of white unruly hair. When you yell, "Hey, Einstein!", you are making reference to the fact that he was once a genius. So how much do you know about this great man as a child? In this book, Brown introduces us to Albert from day one (March 14, 1879, to be exact). As a boy, Albert has his good moods and he has his bad moods. In a good mood he can create a house of cards fourteen stories high and ponder the mysteries of a compass for fun. In a bad mood he is prone to hitting his little sister, terrifying his tutor, and getting so upset that his nose turns white. As we watch, Albert is given an amazing amount of freedom. He wanders the Munich streets alone at the age of four. He discovers geometry with the help of a friendly medical student. The book progresses and we learn a little about Albert's personality from offhand comments. "Soldiers on parade excite the boys. They disturb Albert". At end of this journey, Albert comes up with theory of relativity and, "For the world, Einstein comes to mean not fat baby, or angry child, or odd boy, but great thinker". And now our children can understand where all genius has its beginnings. In the ordinary and familiar.
What I enjoyed about the book was that Brown doesn't linger on just the good things in Einstein's life. No child's a saint, and Albert is no exception. Brown humanizes this latter-day god, giving him a family, a childhood, and a history that kids today (in spite of their love of computerization and high-tech toys) will understand. Who amongst us doesn't recognize Albert's reluctance to engage in organized sports as something we, or someone we know, have also felt? The story is laid out beautifully. The illustrations are little more haphazard. Granted, I really liked the picture of Albert engaged in a temper tantrum. His little fists are clenched and his nose, true to the text, is a slightly whitish color. By and large these pen and ink pictures colored in with watercolors work well. There's just the occasional oddity. When teachers wonder if Albert is dull-witted, Brown illustrates a disturbingly glazed-eyed kid who reinforces their concern. It's a peculiar picture, but there's no denying that it conveys the text well.
I saw Mr. Brown speak not too long ago to a gathering of librarians, and I found that I was not especially impressed with him as a person. Nonetheless, the man does nice work. And of the work that he has done, "Odd Boy Out" is probably one of his best. It's a beautifully rendered story that kids will prefer far above and beyond similar Einstein biographies. Not genius, but pretty darn close.
Odd boy out is one great book!.......2004-11-15
Odd boy out is a wonderful book with nice illustraions of the life of Albert Einstein.
Albert was born a fat baby with a big head. He had a bad temper
and was condsidered very odd. He didn't like to play sports, and he was disturbed with the things other boys liked. Einstein grows and soon becomes what we know as the famous scientist Einstein.
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Awesome Book (And Series!).......2007-06-13
I think the "Childhood of Famous Americans" Series is absolutely incredible! Whoever came up with the idea so long ago really had a creative mind! I own Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and I have read every one.
I think that this book was my favorite of all. I bought it a couple of days ago and read it in one day! It shares Albert's own personal stories of when he was a boy and a teenager, like all of them do, and they follow him up to adulthood. Again, great book (and series!)
Great book.......2005-08-13
Very well written, and easy for a child to read and understand. Also quite inspirational.
Einstein: German, not American.......2005-06-20
What the hell? Childhood of famous Americans?
The great Man was a German Jew, who only moved to America in later life.
Keep rewriting history and telling your kids that every great thing invented in all time was done so by an "American". Hollywood would be proud.
Great book.......2000-10-04
This was an ultimate book about Einstein's life.
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Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed.
Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, the physicist who believed in God.
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One of the great biographies of all time.......2005-09-24
Whenever they compile the list of the best biographies of the 20th Century, this book will definitely be on the short list. It's a masterpiece. Clark presents a thorough, erudite, and accessible account of Einstein's life and work. He begins by relating Einstein's early struggles and his years at the Swiss Patent Office, where he read and analyzed technical reports. Then came the great relativity theory and the subsequent success and reknown. The flight from Nazi Germany to Princeton, the building of the atomic bomb during WW II (he regretted this association the most in his life), and the myths that developed around his life with the public (he hated the public adulation; when he died he didn't want his house on Mercer Street in Princeton to become a shrine) also get their fair and judicious treatment. Einstein was a great scientist who had developed some of the most complicated theories in physics, and Clark is excellent in trying to explain them for the general reader. But he is best when capturing Einstein the man. Clark writes with the confidence of a master, even majestically. It's a long book and not a fast read, but the time spent with Clark and his magnificent subject is time very well spent. One even wishes for more at the end. A brilliant work.
The very symbol of human genius .......2005-06-26
This is a well- written account of the life of Einstein. It also provides explanations for the general reader of Einstein's great and revolutionary contributions to mankind's understanding of the physical world.
It gives the picture of how one person from relatively humble origins rose to become the very symbol of human genius, and a cultural hero of mankind.
It presents a picture of a more complicated human being by far than is contained by the popular image. It is the picture of a person of enormous dedication, of a startling power to devise in his own mind ' thought- experiments' that would lead to changing completely mankind's conceptions not only of the world but of its own powers.
It is the the story of Einstein's reluctant political involvements, his devotion to peace, his great humanism, his Zionism and contribution to the building of Hebrew University, his opposition to Fascism, his famous letter to President Roosevelt that pushed the Chicago project for building the Atom bomb, his torments of conscience over his discoveries having been used in war.
Most importantly it traces the scientific career of Einstein including the legendary moment of great triumph in 1919 when his general theory of Relativity was experimentally confirmed, and Einstein transformed overnight into a world- famous figure.
It also tells the story of Einstein's struggle for over thirty- five years throughout the whole latter part of his life to devise a unified field theory . This is the story of a great man's frustration, and too his isolation from the great majority of his colleagues in regard to his position on quantum theory, (The famous," God does not play dice with the world")
Clark describes Einstein's fundamental attitude toward Nature and God, his closeness to Spinoza in seeing in an impersonal eternal order of nature the source of Beauty and objective scientific truth.
This is a wonderful book about one of mankind's greatest creative giants.
A Great Man Deserves A Great Book........2005-04-01
Albert Einstein found his place among philosophies and equations in mathematical and scientific areas he had grown up around. He hated his strict school at the gymnasium when he was young and the army when he was older. These two deep dislikes caused him to be freer in his work and mind set, and to never be brought down by structure or criticism. His imagination and pure genius made him one of the world's most impressive thinkers, ever. Einstein was the fore-runner of his new, "illogical" physics and took much of the heat, as did Galileo when he first discovered his laws. He traveled all over the world and experienced much of the times. He finally settled in America and helped the government create a bomb to stop the fighting of World War II, the atomic bomb. As a friend, Phillip Frank knew the man personally and wrote his story because of his mysterious genius and major accomplishments. Einstein's as important as Galileo, Newton, or Kepler, and his story might even be more interesting. This book was a good read and definitely a good reference for anything to do with the genius and his discoveries.
Where is Mileva?.......2004-01-01
This is a good biography of Einstein as far as it goes, but it is a bit dated and incomplete as far as his first wife Mileva Maric and their three children are concerned. Clark refers to her only a few times, and he introduces her as the daughter of a Serbian peasant. She was brilliant in her own right, and there is strong evidence that she was instrumental in developing his theories of relativity. Anybody who doubts this should consult the love letters Einstein wrote to her between about 1900-1905. He refers to "our work on relativity," and some of the letters actually contain formulas and equations!
I have never understood why Einstein has the reputation as the greatest genius etc. He had a lot of help with the theory of relativity (e.g., Poincare and many others), and to the end of his life he refused to believe in the reality of quantum theory, what is thought to be the most precise theory in the history of science. Wouldn't a genius see the truth of this theory?
a great analysis.......2002-04-02
This is an exceptionally well written biography of perhaps the greatest scientific genius in human history.Clark superbly conveys the story of Einstein`s journey through physics,the world wars & Zionism.Be warned,though:the book`s encyclopedic nature & voluminous content ensures that reading it till the end is pie in the sky for people who are not used to heavy reading & deep contemplation on the topics discussed.
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