David Bodanis studied mathematics, physics and history at the University of Chicago, and for many years taught the "Intellectual Tool-Kit" course at Oxford University. The author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller THE SECRET HOUSE and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos, and most recently helped run an international study for the UK Treasury on the future of high-frequency trading. Bodanis's work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times. He lives in London.

Books by David Bodanis

Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography

by David Bodanis - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. As renowned writer David Bodanis explains in EINSTEIN’S GREATEST MISTAKE, this stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein’s earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets.