This intimate portrait of Albert Einstein reveals the "backward" child, the academic outcast, the reluctant world celebrity, the exile, the pacifist, the philosopher, the humanitarian, the tragically saddened "father" of the atomic bomb, and above all, the unceasing searcher after scientific truth. At the same time, you'll be given a superb and essential introduction to the creative process and the concepts that shattered an age-old view of the universe and ushered in a revolution whose reverberations continue to touch us all. Banesh Hoffmann was a collaborator and friend of Einstein, as well as a noted scientist.