"Annus Mirabilis," or "miraculous year" is a capsule biography of Einstein folded into a "Relativity for Dummies" handbook. Its first 137 pages offer basic and lucid accounts of Einstein's ideas ...

Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought of my life." Interlude one. The romance of many dimensions ; Glimpsing a solution ...

Walter Isaacson’s 704-page, 2.4-pound biography of Albert Einstein may not provide a solution to the great question that nagged the physicist to the day he died – but thanks to Isaacson's access to a ...

The last 30 years of his life were spent on a fruitless search for a unified field theory, but as John Ellis explains, Einstein put this "holy grail" of modern physics on the theoretical map. The ...

The year 1922 was a busy one for Albert Einstein: He completed his first paper on unified field theory, went to Paris to help normalize French-German relations and joined an intellectuals committee at ...