Conversations with Einstein

This is a short book with an biography of Einstein, and then a  interview session where Einstein answers questions about his life (as if he were alive). The series has been renamed Conversations with ... some well known person and is a good light summary of Einstein's life. It would be a good book for an advanced reader in public school.

As I am studying for a bachelor in Mechatronical Engineering, this book was highly interesting to me. I generally like the physics side of my studies, and as long as I can see the logical patterns, these subjects come quite easy to me. I've been looking for more books on Einstein's findings, and more of these things, and reading this book was interesting.

An interesting and informative read on one of history's most well known individuals. Conversations with Einstein stands apart from the crowd due to its originality and fresh take and works as a great informative piece for beginners or newbies to Einsteins works. Would make perfect school reading!

Conversations with Einstein is a great (short)book (~75 pages), that  provides insight into the life of the world's most famous figure in the field of physics, and quite possibly, all of science. The book is divided into clearly titled sections, including explanations of his theories on relativity, his family life, his involvement in WW2, and, his religious beliefs. His special theory, E=mc2, was one of 5 papers that he wrote in 1905. The general theory of relativity paper was written in 1915. These were his greatest accomplishments. 

Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879. He had one sister, Maja, and they grew up together in Berlin. His first marriage to fellow scientist to Mileva. They had three children, 2 boys Hans Albert and Eduard and a daughter, Lieserl. This marriage ended in divorce. His second marriage was to his cousin Elsa. This one lasted. Only Albert went on to be a professor at Berkley. Eduard suffered from schizophrenia and  no one knows what became of Einstein's daughter Lieserl.

Einstein was a pacifist, His knowledge that the Nazi's had access to uranium led him to write a letter to president Roosevelt, encouraging the government to create the atomic bomb before the Nazis. His involvement with the atomic bomb stopped there. After the war he returned to being an absolute pacifist. He was never involved with the Manhattan project.

Finally, Einstein believed in a supreme being that created the universe. However, he did not believe in any form of organized practice of religion.

Thank you #netgalley for the e-ARC of #conversatioswitheinstein by Carlos Callie, in return for my honest review, absolutely five stars!

This book is a posthumous 'interview' with Einstein.  The content is drawn from views that he had expressed, but are otherwise purely imaginary conversations.  Something about how this book came together sparked my interest and made me want to check it out.  It's definitely a much different approach to a biography and was a lot quicker and easy to read since it is in conversational form!  I really liked it - and it even gave you a list of some further readings to check out if once you were done you decided you needed to find out more!

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I wasn't otherwise compensated.