Summary of Allen Esterson & David C. Cassidy's Einstein's Wife

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#1 Mileva Marić was born on December 19, 1875, in the town of Titel in the predominately Serbian province of Vojvodina on the southern border of Hungary. She was the first child of Miloš Marić and Marija Ruzić.
#2 The Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Hungary began to dissolve its Military Frontier. Miloš returned to civilian life in the year of Mileva's birth. She began middle school in 1886 in Novi Sad, and her father decided that she would receive an education as far as her abilities would take her.
#3 After just a year at the Serbian Girls’ School, Mileva transferred in 1887 to another middle school, the Royal Lower Secondary School in Sremska Mitrovica on the Sava River not far from her family's home in Ruma. She was determined to continue her education at a gymnasium.
#4 Mileva attended the Royal Serbian Gymnasium in Šabac, Serbia, in 1890, and the Royal Croatian Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1892. She was admitted as a private student in 1892, and was given a stipend to attend the gymnasium.

Sujets

• Science
• Autobiography
• Technology
• Biography
• Science and technology
• Lettres et linguistique

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669399513
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Mileva Marić was born on December 19, 1875, in the town of Titel in the predominately Serbian province of Vojvodina on the southern border of Hungary. She was the first child of Miloš Marić and Marija Ruzić.

#2

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Hungary began to dissolve its Military Frontier. Miloš returned to civilian life in the year of Mileva's birth. She began middle school in 1886 in Novi Sad, and her father decided that she would receive an education as far as her abilities would take her.

#3

After just a year at the Serbian Girls’ School, Mileva transferred in 1887 to another middle school, the Royal Lower Secondary School in Sremska Mitrovica on the Sava River not far from her family's home in Ruma. She was determined to continue her education at a gymnasium.

#4

Mileva attended the Royal Serbian Gymnasium in Šabac, Serbia, in 1890, and the Royal Croatian Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1892. She was admitted as a private student in 1892, and was given a stipend to attend the gymnasium.

#5

Mileva’s grades at the Zagreb gymnasium were good in her first year, but dropped in her second year when she enrolled in physics classes. She persevered and even thrived as best she could, despite the harassment she may have received.

#6

Mileva Marić, after taking the 1894 exams in Zagreb, traveled to Zurich in Switzerland, which was one of the few European countries that fully admitted women to higher education. She enrolled in November 1894 for her last years of preparatory schooling at the Higher Girls’ School.

#7

Mileva attended the Swiss Federal Medical School, but she later switched to physics and mathematics at the Zurich Polytechnic. She was undeterred by the gender discrimination that existed in those fields, and she pursued them anyway.

#8

Mileva was the only woman in her class of physics students at the Zurich Polytechnic. She was also one of only two students majoring in physics in the first-year class.

#9

Einstein's path to the Zurich Polytechnic was much shorter and more direct than Mileva’s. He was born in Ulm in southwestern Germany in 1879, to non-observing Jewish parents. He entered primary school in Munich at the age of six, and received private Jewish religious instruction at home.

#10

Einstein had a precocious talent for science and especially mathematics. When he was nine and a half, he entered Munich's Luitpold Gymnasium, a classical gymnasium where Greek and Latin were important subjects.

#11

Albert’s time at the Munich gymnasium was largely unenjoyable. He was not fond of the uncongenial atmosphere of the school, and he developed an antipathy toward all forms of dogma and authority, especially the Prussian influence on his school.

#12

Albert Einstein, after finishing school, moved to Italy to join his family. He planned to study on his own and take the entrance exams to the Zurich Polytechnic in October 1895. If he passed the exams, he would not need the Matura. But he failed the general part of the exam, which tested knowledge in political history, literature, languages, and descriptive natural sciences.

#13

Einstein’s education continued at the Aargau Cantonal School in nearby Aarau, Switzerland, during the academic year 1895–96. He thrived in the free atmosphere of democratic Switzerland, and his grades were the highest of the nine candidates who took the Matura exams.

#14

In the late 1800s, German-speaking Zurich in Switzerland was a hub of intellectual, cultural, and political ferment. Its democracy, schools, and two institutions of higher learning made it a magnet for ambitious students.

#15

The Swiss Polytechnic was similar to American colleges, and students were typically about the same age as American juniors. It did not grant the doctoral degree until it became the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1911.

#16

Einstein and Marić entered the Polytechnic in 1896, and their grades in their first-year courses were similar to their fellow mathematics students. They did not show any mathematical brilliance.

#17

Mileva attended university in Heidelberg, Germany, in fall 1897. She began correspondence with Einstein, and her father gave him some tobacco that he was to give to her personally. She told him all about him, and asked him to come back with her.

#18

The correspondence between Albert and Mileva began in October 1897, and they wrote to each other almost every week until March 1898, when she returned to Zurich. Albert apologized for not responding to her letter for such a long time, and he explained the course work she had missed.

#19

Einstein was growing restless, and he and Marić began to study on their own. They were becoming close friends and study partners. In another surviving note from 1898, Einstein told of the death of the brother of his close friend Michele Angelo Besso, a former Polytechnic engineering student whom Einstein had met during an evening musical gathering in Zurich.

#20

In late 1898, Mileva and Albert finished their second academic year at the Polytechnic. They had taken Weber's physics course, and both received a 5 in it. They also took ungraded electives outside their major field. Marić's outside electives included a course in psychology.

#21

Einstein did well on the intermediate mathematics exams, but he tended to focus in his coursework only on the topics that interested him. He also cut classes that did not interest him.

#22

During their third year at the Polytechnic, 1898–99, Einstein and Marić began working on their thesis projects. They were becoming engrossed in outside readings in theoretical physics, and Einstein seemed to regard Pernet's lab course as dispensable.

#23

Marić's letters to Einstein from this period do not mention anything about his new ideas on electrodynamics. She did, however, assure him that every letter gave her warm memories of home.

#24

Mileva moved from Miss Bächtold's house to a boarding house in Zurich in April 1899. She met many new friends there, including Helene Kaufler, who would become her best friend.

#25

In September 1899, Marić was studying for her intermediate exams. Einstein wrote to her from Milan to encourage her, saying that he was sure everything would go well. He was looking forward to being back together again.