It’s hard for me to evaluate this book. As a biography of Einstein and Schrödinger and their interactions of the years, it’s interesting. As a look at how politics and life events can affect the ability of scientists to do their best science, it’s enlightening.


In terms of the actual science, I still mostly don’t get it. I think the coverage of Schrödinger’s cat and Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is presented well, but I was already comfortable with those subjects. A lot of the other science is hard to follow. Now, that’s not the prime purpose of this book, and it’s a hard subject, so to some extent that’s reasonable, but it seems weird to me to carry the science well past their deaths when I don’t think it’s covered with sufficient depth to be truly educational to most.

That said, it’s not a bad book. The primary subject of Einstein and Schrodinger is presented in an interesting way with enough of the big picture timeline of the science to follow. But I wouldn’t expect to learn that much of the science even if it’s presented through the book in a way implying you can.