Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time And The Beauty That Causes Havoc

Author: Arthur I. Miller

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Price : $49.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780465018604
Publisher : Basic Books
Imprint : Basic Books
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Weight (g) : 0.521
Publication date : 01 February 2001
Produced in : United States
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Author : Arthur I. Miller
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Language : English
Pages : 368
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This parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso examines their greatest creations, showing how these breakthroughs arose from within their fields and from currents in the era\\\'s intellectual culture. The author shows how Einstein and Picasso were both working on the same problem.

Reviews

"Miller is an excellent historian, and a fine biographer... [His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the book something of an intellectual thriller."-New York Times Book Review.