Book Summary:
The biography of Albert Einstein delved into the nature of his personal life and the many personality traits that helped to shape him.
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Quotes:
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
Book Summary Notes:
- It’s become a sign of intelligence and greatness to call someone “Einstein”
- Early set backs in Einstein’s life, like his slow linguistic development and he reflected later in life that these early difficulties allowed to preserve a sort of wonder and amazement about things most adults would take for granted. He would later also get himself kicked out of school for protesting the rote drilling of facts that school consisted of at the time.
- Later in life Einstein threw himself into work after a failed marriage. Dispite his difficulty with relationships he was considered kind and loving towards many people. This extended to his eventual students as well who all remembered his classes with fondness.
- Einstein’s career was marked by two revolutionary periods the first in 1905 and the second a decade later. Following this second period he spent the remainder of his life trying to come up with a unifying theory for his earlier ideas.
- His first nobel prize came as a result of his Law of Photoelectric Effect, which dealt with energy emitted by light.
- Einstein would eventually come up with his Theory of General Relativity by expanding upon his Theory of Special Relativity.
- Eventually with the help of other mathematicians Einstein was able to produce a mathematical equation for his theory and come up with e=mc2
- Eventually Einstein fled Europe for the USA as anti sematism grew leading up to the Second World War.
- Einstein passed away in 1955 from an aneurysm in his abdominal aorta. Although ill for months leading up to his death he continued to work with the same curiosity and persistence that had kept him inspired since childhood.
