Simon Ings

An admirably elegant theory

His appeal apparently lay in his incomprehensibility. ‘They cheer you because no one understands you,' Charlie Chaplin helpfully explained

issue 11 May 2019

  • Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

    Allen Esterson and David C Cassidy; contribution by Ruth Lewin Sime

    MIT, pp. 313

  • Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

    Matthew Stanley

    Viking, pp. 400

  • Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

    Ron Cowen

    Harvard, pp. 176

  • No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1909 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

    Daniel Kennefick

    Princeton, pp. 320

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