‘A most useful introduction for the general reader’ – Contemporary Review

‘An interesting and inexpensive enrichment to the science section of the library’ – School Librarian

This thought-provoking, profusely-illustrated book explains Einstein's work in plain language and examines the life of one of the most remarkable figures of all time.

Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, humanist – Albert Einstein was so radical a thinker that his brilliance is difficult to grasp. He was not an outstanding student, yet in 1905, at the age of 26, he published groundbreaking studies of the relationships between mass, energy and the speed of light and the ways in which they are observed and measured. Relativity theory, as these ideas are known, forever altered our understanding of the universe.

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Newton: Understanding the Cosmos
Numbers: The Universal Language
The Story of Measurement