Reading List
Walter Isaacson
Author and Journalist
Walter Isaacson is an American journalist and biographer who ran CNN and edited Time before turning to writing the lives of people who changed their fields. His subjects form a line through the history of ideas: Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, the gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk. The books share a method and a question, how curiosity and character combine to produce genius, which is why they read as much as studies of creativity as of individual people. He teaches at Tulane.
Einstein in Love
A Scientific Romance
by Dennis Overbye · 2000 · Non-Fiction
“He shows their passionate love but also their shared joy in physics.” — via Interview, December 2010
Einstein’s Dreams
by Alan Lightman · 1992 · Fiction
“The whimsy is good and so is the physics.” — via Interview, December 2010
The Evolution of Physics
by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld · 1938 · Non-Fiction
“Deeply woven into this is his idea that there must be laws of the universe that are invariable” — via Interview, December 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene · 2004 · Non-Fiction
“This is the clearest explanation of Newton and Einstein available, and Greene does it with a great sense of humour and wonderful visual thought experiments.” — via Interview, December 2010
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps
Empires of Time
by Peter Galison · 2003 · Non-Fiction
“This is a triumph of research combined with brilliant conceptual insights.” — via Interview, December 2010
