爱因斯坦生前就被誉为"新牛顿"和"人类史上最伟大的学者之一"，至今仍被视为20世纪的偶像，甚至被选为20世纪最重要的思想家。他的肖像出现在钞票和邮票上，出现在各种报刊杂志、图书的封面上，目前至少有三出爱因斯坦歌剧，许多小说、故事和专著的书名里都有他的名字，德国甚至有十余所爱因斯坦高级中学。在《爱因斯坦在柏林》中，作者从爱因斯坦同时代人的眼光人手观察他以及柏林的文化、社会和政治氛围，讲述了爱因斯坦以及和他同在柏林生活的人，并叙述柏林这座城市和爱因斯坦生活于其中这段时期的文化史。作者设法把这位多才多艺的天才人物生活中的一个阶段和柏林这座多元都会的命运结合起来，大有助于理解这位20世纪最著名的物理学家。(During Einstein's lifetime, he was called as "New Newton" and "one of the greatest scholars in human history", and now is still regarded as the idol of 20th century and even elected to the most significant thinker of 20th century. His portrait appears on currencies, stamps and covers of various kinds of newspaper, magazines and books. By now, there are at least three operas about Einstein. His name appears in titles of many novels, stories and monographs. In German, there are even more than ten Einstein Senior Middle Schools. In Einstein in Berlin, the author starts to observe him and Berlin's culture, social and political atmosphere in the contemporary's view. And the author also describes Einstein and persons who lives with him in Berlin and narrates the city of Berlin, as well as cultural history of the time when Einstein lived in Berlin. The author tries to combine one life stage of the versatile genius with the fate of the multi-cultural city of Berlin, which shall help you to understand the most famous physicist of 20th century. )