Summary
Joe Schwartz: Einstein for Beginners
A fun book in which many interesting, but also demanding mathematical and physical knowledge is explained in a graphic way. The authors of the book follow Albert Einstein from the first days of acquiring mathematical knowledge, until the time when he became one of the most charismatic figures of his time, but always engaging in a broad socio-economic and scientific context. The most famous equation of the 20th century contains the entire history of research into the laws of nature: Babylonian and Sumerian arithmetic, Pythagorean theorems, Galileo's research into the laws of motion, Newton's mechanics, research by Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell...
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