The appeal of Fine's book comes both from his smooth and interesting writing style and his openminded approach to the subject. The first half is primarily historical; the development of Einstein's objections to quantum theory are traced from their origins to his publication with Podoisky and Rosen of the now-famous EPR paradox.
In chapter two the young Einstein—daring and unafraid of new ideas—is compared to the old Einstein, whom some describe as conservative and. unable to rid himself of early prejudices. Fine, however, does not accept this "traditional" view of the older Einstein. He notes that the older man was "so much on top of the problem that he was able to reconstruct the Schrödinger equation from fundamentals" after receiving only a "garbled" account of it. Einstein was, of course, dissatisfied not with the numbers that came out of quantum theory, but with its philosophical implications and what he felt ...
