Einstein and Picasso: Two Geniuses and the Journey of Twentieth-Century Civilization

Author: Arthur I. Miller
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Introduction This book is a parallel biography of the great 20th-century scientist Albert Einstein and the important artist Pablo Picasso, describing their astonishing creative journeys. At the time they achieved their major accomplishments, both Einstein and Picasso were unknown figures in their twenties, living an unstable life, both poor and often getting into trouble. For a while, Picasso even carried a gun, ready to shoot anyone who bothered him. As for Einstein, since he had no recommendation from mentors to teach at a university, he had to make a living at the Swiss Patent Office. But for Einstein, who was always immersed in technical problems, designing generators and coordinating train schedules still sparked his theory of relativity. In the era of Einstein and Picasso, the traditional understanding of time and space through intuition no longer applied, and both unconsciously presented time and space in a deeper way. From this perspective, Einstein's theory of relativity and Picasso's cubism were actually dealing with the same problem.