Einstein Picasso: Space Time And The Bea

"Millerisanexcellenthistorian...andafinebiographer....[His]artfularrangementofhisconclusions...makesthebooksomethingofanintellectualthriller."--NewYorkTimesBookReview.Themostimportantscientistofthetwentiethcenturyandthemostimportantartisthadtheirperiodsofgreatestcreativityalmostsimultaneouslyandinremarkablysimilarcircumstances.ThisfascinatingparallelbiographyofAlbertEinsteinandPabloPicassoasyoungmenexaminestheirgreatestcreations--Picasso'sLesDemoisellesd'AvignonandEinstein'sspecialtheoryofrelativity.Millershowshowthesebreakthroughsarosenotonlyfromwithintheirrespectivefieldsbutfromlargercurrentsintheintellectualcultureofthetimes.Ultimately,MillershowshowEinsteinandPicasso,inadeepandimportantsense,werebothworkingonthesameproblem.