TY - BOOK AU - Bodanis,David TI - Einstein's greatest mistake: the life of a flawed genius SN - 9781408708101 (trade paperback) AV - QC16.E5 B66 2016 U1 - 530.092 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Little, Brown KW - Einstein, Albert, KW - Physicists KW - Biography KW - Errors, Scientific N1 - Includes index; Victorian childhood -- Coming of age -- Annus mirabilis -- Only the beginning -- Glimpsing a solution -- Time to think -- Sharpening the tools -- The greatest idea -- True or false? -- Totality -- Cracks in the foundation -- Rising tensions -- The queen of hearts is black -- Finally at ease -- Crushing the upstart -- Uncertainty of the modern age -- Arguing with the dane -- Dispersions -- Isolation in Princeton -- The end N2 - David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing ER -