Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:05100031,
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            url = {https://pirsa.org/05100031},
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            language = {en},
            title = {Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2005},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:05100031 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, went through their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances: Einstein\'s special theory of relativity and Picasso\'s Les Demoiselles d\'Avignon. It turns out they were both working on the same problem: the nature of space and time and, more particularly, simultaneity. When they produced these astonishing works, Einstein and Picasso were not the distinguished elderly figures that later became so familiar: they were in their twenties, unknown, feisty, dirt-poor, and prone to getting into trouble - their personal and creative beauty caused havoc. Arthur Miller, Einstein, Picasso, Les Demoisselle D\'Avignon, Arts, science, biography, special relativity, space, time, simultaneity,