Einstein, Picasso by Arthur Miller, Basic Books, $30, ISBN
0465018599
FOR PHYSICISTS, the opening decade of the 20th century brought the revolution
of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity and its startling assertions
about the nature of time and space. Around the same time Pablo Picasso was
making waves in the art world with his controversial Cubist painting Les
Demoiselles d’Avignon. It, too, overturned conventional thinking.
Arthur Miller, professor of history and philosophy of science at University
College London, sees clear parallels between these two young men and the
creative forces that drove them. He examines the circumstances in which…
