Einstein, Picasso: Space, time and the beauty that causes havoc

The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest works -Einstein´s special theory of relativity and Picasso´s Les Demoiselles d´Avignon, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. Miller shows how both, in a deep and important sense, were working on the same problem : the increasingly sophisticated ideas of space.