"Einstein, Picasso presents new insights into the creative
processes common to a revolutionary scientist and radical artist."
-- --New Scientist
"[An] eloquent and wide-ranging interdisciplinary history of
ideas." -- --Publishers Weekly
內容簡介:
"Miller is an excellent historian...and a fine biographer....
[His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the book
something of an intellectual thriller."-- New York Times Book
Review.
The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the
most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity
almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances.
This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and
Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest
creations--Picasso''s Les Demoiselles d''Avignon and Einstein''s
special theory of relativity. Miller shows how these breakthroughs
arose not only from within their respective fields but from larger
currents in the intellectual culture of the times. Ultimately,
Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and important
sense, were both working on the same problem.
關於作者:
Arthur I. Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of
Science, Department of Science Technology Studies, University
College, London. He lives in London, England.