Einstein and relativity

As the official Amazon review for this book mentions, it is more about the man than the ideas. It's not until past page 30 of this 90 pager that we even come into contact within any ideas whatsoever.

Strathern gives more space in this book to the life of Einstein than to his scientific work. Still he manages to give capsule descriptions of the four great papers of the annus mirabilis of 1905.

This book, while interesting to read was a little basic in the scientific knowledge it displayed. It spent too long on Einstein's background and his general history and not enough on his ground breaking ideas that changed the view from the classical physics of Newton's era.