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Einstein's greatest mistake : the life of a flawed genius / David Bodanis

This biography examines the intellectual development of the physicist who transformed our understanding of the cosmos. It explores how his reliance on intuition led to the theory of general relativity but caused his later isolation regarding quantum mechanics.

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