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.
Analyzes one of the three great papers Einstein published in 1905, each of which would alter forever the field it dealt with. The second of these papers had an impact in a much broader field than electrodynamics. It uses the paper to provide a window into the intense intellectual struggles of physicists in the first decade of the 20th century.