Albert Einstein in Contemporary Culture

Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or a job, who was written off by his professors as a hopeless loser, could dare to scale the heights he reached.

In this enlightening book, Michio Kaku reassesses Einstein's work by centering on his three great theories: special relativity, general relativity, and the Unified Field Theory. He first yielded the equation E = mc², which is now such a fixture in our culture that it is practically a ubiquitous slogan. But the subsequent theories led to the Big Bang theory and have changed irrevocably the way we perceive time and space.

Michio Kaku offers a new, refreshing look at the pioneering work of Einstein, giving a more accurate portrayal of his enduring legacy than previous biographies. As today’s advanced physicists continue their search to fulfill Einstein’s most cherished dream, a theory of everything, he is recognized as a prophet who set the agenda for modern physics.