Reviews for A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

The average rating for A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-07 00:00:00 Kyle Ellis You've got to be kidding? The average rating for this is 4.21, yet I'm willing to stake my dog's life on the bet that nobody in the Goodreads world has ever read even one chapter. These are reprints of Einstein's original papers on relativity--both special and general. The papers are filled with multivariable calculus, both differential and integral, and with tensor mathematics. Perhaps a real physicist has read this book, or sections of it, but I wonder how many of them contributed to the rating. Einstein's contributions are mammouthly important, and on a scale of 1 to 5 he deserves a 4,350! I don't have the temerity to rate this book. [Update: there are Goodreads members who tell me that they are physicists and that I insult them by saying that nobody in Goodreads could have read a chapter. What I wrote was intentionally hyperbolic and I had no intention of excluding physicists from possible Goodreads membership. Mea Culpa! My point was, simply, don't pick this book up as a path to a layman's understanding of relativity--it really is for the physicists among you. For the rest of you, don't worry--the dog is alive]

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-07 00:00:00 Blly Smith first part is dense - equations way over my head. Later part, with edits by Hawking, were far better. A good read for the science lover, esp. if the science lover knows physics better than moi.