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Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric By Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric by Albert Einstein


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Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and Maric met as students at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, and ending shortly after their marriage, these 54 letters offer a rare glimpse into Einstein's relationship with his first wife while shedding light on his intellectual development before 1905.

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric Summary

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein

In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and Maric met as students at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, and ending shortly after their marriage, these 54 love letters offer a rare glimpse into Einstein's relationship with his first wife while shedding light on his intellectual development in the period before the annus mirabilis of 1905. Unlike the picture of Einstein as the lone, isolated thinker of Princeton, he appears here both as the burgeoning enfant terrible of science and as an amorous young man beset, along with his fiancee, by financial and personal struggles - among them the illegitimate birth of their daughter, whose existence is known only by these letters.

Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric Reviews

Will further undermine the stereotype and reward all who delight in the company of young people deliciously in love. We all have trunks in the attic harboring letters that reveal the same impatience with parents, the same youthful naivete, passion and delight. But this was Einstein, and that makes all the difference. * New York Times Book Review *
This excellent book will be of especial interest to academics and Einstein devotees. * Sunday Telegraph *
This illuminating and surprising collection opens with an excellent introduction that sets the stage for this record of a difficult romance. * Booklist *

About Albert Einstein

Jurgen Renn, Assistant Professor in the University Professors Program at Boston University, and Robert Schulmann, Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, are coeditors of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

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CIN0691087601G
9780691087603
0691087601
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
Used - Good
Hardback
Princeton University Press
19920505
160
N/A
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