Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric (eBook)

The Love Letters

Albert Einstein (Autor)

Jürgen Renn, Robert Schulmann (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21503-7 (ISBN)

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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 fifty-four 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 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 fiance, by financial and personal struggles--among them the illegitimate birth of their daughter, whose existence is known only by these letters. Describing his conflicts with professors and other scientists, his arguments with his mother over Maric, and his difficulty obtaining an academic position after graduation, the letters enable us to reconstruct the youthful Einstein with an unprecedented immediacy. His love for Maric, whom he describes as "e;a creature who is my equal, and who is as strong and independent as I am,"e; brings forth his serious as well as playful, often theatrical nature. After their marriage, however, Maric becomes less his intellectual companion, and, failing to acquire a teaching certificate, she subordinates her professional goals to his. In the final letters Einstein has obtained a position at the Swiss Patent Office and mentions their daughter one last time to his wife in Hungary, where she is assumed to have placed the girl in the care of relatives. Informative, entertaining, and often very moving, this collection of letters captures for scientists and general readers alike a little known yet crucial period in Einstein's life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2020
• Übersetzer: Shawn Smith
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: Address (geography) • ad infinit • Ad Oculos • Alfred Kleiner • Annalen • Annus mirabilis • arson • Assistent • Atomism • Augusto Righi • Beatenberg • biographers • boarding house • Boredom • Brownian motion • Calculation • Calculus • Career • charge carrier • classical electromagnetism • coefficient • conscientiousness • Consciousness • Coulomb's Law • Darling • Description • differential equation • difficulty • diphtheria • Diplom • Diplomarbeit • Disgust • doctorate • Drude • Einstein to Marić • electricity • Engelbrecht • Engineering • Experimental Physics • forensic pathology • Formulation • Fourier series • Girl • God • Gravity • heat capacity • High Spirits (musical) • horribile dictu • hypnosis • ideal gas • Imagination • immediately • internal energy • Johannes Stark • kinetic energy • kinetic theory of gases • latent heat • Lecture • lecturer • Letter • Luminiferous aether • Lunch • Man and Wife (novel) • Marcel Grossmann • Max Planck • meal • Mésalliance • Michele Besso • mileva • Mileva Maric • Molecule • musical successes • nagging • Native • Non-Euclidean geometry • Note (typography) • Number Theory • Olympia Academy • originality • paradise • parent • Pedant • Philipp Lenard • Physical Chemistry • Physikalische Zeitschrift • Physiologists • Pleasure • postmark • potential energy • Privatdozent • Privatdozenten • Professor • Projective Geometry • Quantity • Recommendation • Sake • scarlet fever • Schaffhausen • Schopenhauer • Scientist • Secondary School • Second Letter (Plato) • Self-confidence • seriousness • Soul • Spanking • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Sweetheart • Swiss Federal Council • Sympathy • Temperature • Text (literary theory) • The Boarder • theory • Thermal Conduction • thermal conductivity • Thesis • Thing (assembly) • Thought • Titlis • Train Station • treatise • University of Giessen • University of Zurich • vocabulary • wife • Wilhelm Ostwald • Wilhelm Wien • wish • Zurich
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21503-0 / 0691215030
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21503-7 / 9780691215037