Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: A Genius Awakens.
Chapter 1: Who Was Einstein?
Chapter 2: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man.
Chapter 3: 1905: Einstein’s Miracle Year.
Part II: On the Shoulders of Giants: What Einstein Learned in School.
Chapter 4: A Clockwork Universe.
Chapter 5: The Arrow of Time.
Chapter 6: Einstein’s Most Fascinating Subject.
Chapter 7: And There Was Light.
Part III: The Special Theory of Relativity.
Chapter 8: Relativity Before Einstein.
Chapter 9: Riding on a Beam of Light.
Chapter 10: Clocks, Trains, and Automobiles: Exploring Space and Time.
Chapter 11: The Equation.
Part IV: The General Theory of Relativity.
Chapter 12: Einstein’s Second Theory of Relativity.
Chapter 13: “Black Holes Ain’t So Black”.
Chapter 14: Was Einstein Right about Relativity?
Part V: The Quantum and the Universe.
Chapter 15: Atoms Before Einstein.
Chapter 16: Quantum Leap: God Plays Dice.
Chapter 17: Einstein and the Bomb.
Chapter 18: Einstein’s Greatest Blunder.
Chapter 19: Not a Blunder After All.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Insights into Einstein’s Beliefs on Religion and Philosophy.
Chapter 21: Ten Women Who Influenced Einstein.
Appendix A: Glossary.
Appendix B: Einstein Timeline.
Index.
