Thinking Like Einstein

by Thomas G. West

Book Overview

Albert Einstein once said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by playing with images in his imagination. Only in a secondary stage did he translate - with great effort, he says - these images into the language of words and mathematics that could be understood by others.According to Thomas G. West, Einstein was a classic example of a strong visual thinker, a person who tends to think in images and visual patterns, and sometimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591022517
• ISBN13: 9781591022510
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Understand Visual Thinkers

Having gone to engineering school, married an engineer, and raised 6 children (several of them visual thinkers) I appreciate this book. If you are raising a potential engineer, I recommend this book and "The Einstein Syndrome" to help understand how engineers think. Visual thinking is a blessing I have learned to embrace--at the same time, developing the skills needed to communicate with more auditory folk.