The book is a well written story of the life of Mileva Maric. She was a Serbian woman who attended university in Zurich in physics. She was Einstein’s classmate. She finished her coursework but failed her degree. She had a child with Einstein before they married. That child either died young or was given up for adoption. Nothing is known for sure. After their marriage they had two sons. They divorced when he was having an affair. His mother didn’t like her because Mileva was an inferior dark-skinned Slavic person. (I don’t know. She looks pretty pale to me but I’m Slavic too so Mama Einstein probably wouldn’t have cared for my opinion either.) So why did I delay reading this until now?Įvery time I picked it up I couldn’t quite bring myself to read it. I knew what it was going to be. It is yet another story of a woman who was forced to give up her own ambitions to fit in with the mores of her time. Honestly, the thought exhausted me.
It is a book that seems designed just for me. This was one of the books that I was most excited about after BEA. But as Albert’s fame grows, so too does Mileva’s worry that her light will be lost in her husband’s shadow forever.” There, she falls for charismatic fellow student Albert Einstein, who promises to treat her as an equal in both love and science. In 1896, the extraordinarily gifted Mileva is the only woman studying physics at an elite school in Zürich. “What secrets may have lurked in the shadows of Albert Einstein’s fame? His first wife, Mileva “Mitza†Marić, was more than the devoted mother of their three children—she was also a brilliant physicist in her own right, and her contributions to the special theory of relativity have been hotly debated for more than a century.
The Other Einstein: A Novelby Marie Benedict
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