David R. Topper, Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg (retired, June 2012), from 1970 taught courses in the history of science and the history of art. He was the recipient of two teaching awards: the Robson Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Winnipeg (1981), and the National 3M Teaching Fellowship (1987). He previously published three books: Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy (Springer, 2007), How Einstein Created Relativity from Physics and Astronomy (Springer, 2013), and Idolatry and Infinity: Of Art, Math, and God (Brown Walker, 2014). For reviews see: www.davidrtopper.com
"[...] a fascinating introduction to Einstein's career and
scientific achievements." Stephen G. Brush, University of Maryland.
"This is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever wondered about
who Albert Einstein was and what he actually achieved. David
Topper's achievement is to offer us something that can be read in a
single sitting yet that transforms the greatest icon of modern
scientific genius, 'Einstein', so often emptied of personal
psychology (as Roland Barthes once said) into the human being,
Albert, who was no monk or saint but had a life of struggle, love,
exploitive relationships, personal crisis, irregular faith, and
ultimate success. Topper clearly knows (and loves) his material,
and, as a long-time teacher of quality, knows how to present it to
us. There are profound suggestions of deeper meaning here, too.
For, having lived through the most uncertain and dangerous time of
the modern era for Jews, Einstein held out to the end against a
quantum mechanics that conceived reality as indeterminate and
statistical. In the end, he sought (but never found) a higher, more
final, and, some might say, near-religious reality in the unity of
all things." Scott Montgomery, Jackson School of Int'l. Studies.
"This is a rich in contents book, very well informed and
documented. The interplay between science and society uncovers with
this biography a wide field of interactions." Basil Evangelidis,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens "[...] a good quick
read to provide a temporal framework before tackling one of the
longer volumes." Virginia Trimble, The Observatory
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