Just like the other two books in the same series that I read, one about Freud and the other about Newton, I absolutely enjoyed this installment as well. Witty, funny, original, and creative, this book stroke a more personal chord than the previous ones did, probably due to the fact that I've read a few biographies about Albert Einstein, and I'm more akin to his work and life than either Sigmund Freud or Isaac Newton. The book flowed naturally and the writing was exquisite. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who's interested in Einstein books, whether fictional or not.

Author Carlos I. Calle published the book “Conversations with Einstein: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts” in 2020. He has published several academic papers and five science books for the general public.

I categorize this book as ‘G’. The book is composed of two distinct parts. First is a brief biography of Albert Einstein. The second part constitutes a ‘conversation’ with Einstein. Questions are posed to Einstein, and then answers are formed from his writings or talks that he gave.

I enjoyed the 2+ hours I spent reading this 129-page biography and science history. The book, though quite short, gives an interesting view of Einstein. The author uses the conversation with Einstein to explain in everyday language, some of his famous theories. I like the chosen cover art. I rate this book as a 4.4 (rounded down to a 4) out of 5.

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This book is a posthumous 'interview' with Einstein.  The content is drawn from views that he had expressed, but are otherwise purely imaginary conversations.  Something about how this book came together sparked my interest and made me want to check it out.  It's definitely a much different approach to a biography and was a lot quicker and easy to read since it is in conversational form!  I really liked it - and it even gave you a list of some further readings to check out if once you were done you decided you needed to find out more!

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Conversations with Einstein is a great (short)book (~75 pages), that provides insight into the life of the world's most famous figure in the field of physics, and quite possibly, all of science. The book is divided into clearly titled sections, including explanations of his theories on relativity, his family life, his involvement in WW2, and, his religious beliefs. His special theory, E=mc2, was one of 5 papers that he wrote in 1905. The general theory of relativity paper was written in 1915. These were his greatest accomplishments.

Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879. He had one sister, Maja, and they grew up together in Berlin. His first marriage to fellow scientist to Mileva. They had three children, 2 boys Hans Albert and Eduard and a daughter, Lieserl. This marriage ended in divorce. His second marriage was to his cousin Elsa. This one lasted. Only Albert went on to be a professor at Berkley. Eduard suffered from schizophrenia and no one knows what became of Einstein's daughter Lieserl.

Einstein was a pacifist, His knowledge that the Nazi's had access to uranium led him to write a letter to president Roosevelt, encouraging the government to create the atomic bomb before the Nazis. His involvement with the atomic bomb stopped there. After the war he returned to being an absolute pacifist. He was never involved with the Manhattan project.

Finally, Einstein believed in a supreme being that created the universe. However, he did not believe in any form of organized practice of religion.

Thank you #netgalley for the e-ARC of #conversatioswitheinstein by Carlos Callie, in return for my honest review, absolutely five stars!

It's never the done thing for us reviewers to merely state what a book is NOT, as opposed to what it is, but on this occasion I'll at least start that way, for I was forced to compare this with the sister book on Freud. Like that, it used to be in a series called "Coffee With…" but has been rebranded for those with a caffeine intolerance. Anyway, this one is… less witty, less well structured, less general-browser-friendly, and has less of a special occasion feel about it. But it still is a good book. I came to this series thinking the idea of a cod post mortem interview, where a specialist puts words in the subjects' mouths to convey their thoughts anew, quite a clunky idea, but they are actually pretty decent. Handy for erudition on a short flight, they pack a lot in into a small space, and you do learn both about the men and their works. So, back to my comparison, this Einstein volume is slightly awkward in that it is full of repetition – the chapter introductions only get reinforced by what follows – and loaded questions, where the Freud one seemed a more easily flowing, natural (if chronological) conversation. But by the time this finishes you do get to see Einstein allegedly discussing all his major theories, his guiding lights, the women in his life – oh, and his sailing. So it is an adult primer to his work and his biography. Comparing it to a very, very good book like the Freud sister volume is all relative – this one is still a fine little edition to your shelves.

An interesting and informative read on one of history's most well known individuals. Conversations with Einstein stands apart from the crowd due to its originality and fresh take and works as a great informative piece for beginners or newbies to Einsteins works. Would make perfect school reading!

Conversations With Einstein (a reissue of the 2008 Coffee With Einstein) is rather a good potted biography. It is both a summary of Einstein’s work and of some aspects of his personal life and beliefs.

The book begins with a brief introduction by the great Roger Penrose plus a few pages of summary of Einstein’s life and influence, both of which are good. Then there are sections based on Einstein’s publications and public statements, structured as conversations with the Great Man answering the interviewer’s questions. It’s a little stilted at times, but it works pretty well; there is a decent stab at explaining Einstein’s great discoveries in Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, all without any maths. Because it’s so condensed, this section may leave non-scientists struggling a bit and it may be as well to try one of the excellent popular accounts of his work such as Marcus Chown’s Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You for better insight. However, this does give a good feel for the extraordinary revolutions for which Einstein was responsible.

I liked the sections on how Einstein used to think about things, his politics and religious views. These are again very brief, but probably give as good an insight as some far longer accounts.

This isn’t perfect, but it’s a good introduction to the man and his work.

(My thanks to Watkins Publishing for an ARC via NetGalley.)

I received an ARC of this book via NetGalley.

I thought this was a good, fairly approachable introduction to Einstein including both his life and his ideas. There were definitely some paragraphs dealing with the physics that I had to read twice, but I think the author did a good job of making those parts accessible.

This is a short book with an biography of Einstein, and then a interview session where Einstein answers questions about his life (as if he were alive). The series has been renamed Conversations with ... some well known person and is a good light summary of Einstein's life. It would be a good book for an advanced reader in public school.