And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. " The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva's heart, mind, and study as she tries to forge a place for herself in a scientific world dominated by men."- Bustle I give this book four stars and encourage you to read it, even though the ending is not the happy one I usually would prefer.One of PopSugar's "25 Books You're Going to Curl Up with this Fall." Fortunately we are entering a period when women are more likely to get their due? More rare in contrast, especially for the time, was Marie Curie’s husband who was her colleague, but who also championed her work. Horrible as it is to read of a marginalized woman, it is a story that is all to familiar. I believe that this book puts forward a version of events that is close to what actually happened.
Although the vast sum of this book is biography, it is respectfully fictionalized to weave history’s threads together in a way that makes perfect sense. Since the 80’s when the letters were published, this issue has been hotly debated and remains unresolved.Ĭuriosity over this has not been mine alone, and finally there is a book putting pieces of this story together.
The fact that when she divorced him she was awarded all financial proceeds from his future Nobel prizes, only supported all sorts of evidence from letters that the early work was actually hers. Einstein’s role in the origin of the theory of relativity. I have read extensively in the subject of Physics over the years and have long wondered about the first Mrs.
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