Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein — arguing that his creative genius arose from his rebellious nonconformity and his ability to think in pictures.
Einstein's biographical record combined with explanation of his physics: special relativity (1905), Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, general relativity (1915). Isaacson's thesis: Einstein's genius was enabled by his willingness to challenge authority and think visually/imaginatively rather than through formal mathematics first. The personal life: marriages, political activism, the atomic bomb question.
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