What qualities compel them toward one another? Is their relationship “inevitable,” as Mileva believes.ħ. Mileva and Albert are drawn to each other from the beginning of their years together at Polytechnic. How is this disability both a blessing and a curse? How does her limp impact her differently at different life stages?Ħ. From a very young age, Mileva assumes that she will never marry due to her physical disability. Does this historical setting affect the characters? What role, if any, does it play in shaping their lives?ĥ. Discuss the setting of the book, a world on the brink of astounding scientific discoveries, political upheaval, and ultimately horrible World War I atrocities. What forms of betrayal does she experience? How does her reaction to those betrayals propel the story forward, for better or worse? Has Mileva engaged in betrayal herself?Ĥ. Betrayal is a recurrent motif in the book and an unfortunate reality in Mileva’s life. How does the study of math and physics become this quest for Albert and Mileva? Are they, either separately or together, successful in their crusade? Does unmuzzling life’s mysteries have disparate meanings to them?ģ. This novel can be seen as quest for understanding, a search for the divine in the natural order of the world. Do you think gender would influence Mileva’s life in the same way if she lived today?Ģ.

Discuss the various ways that gender affects the characters in this novel. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.ġ. 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 Wifeand Mrs. By Marie Benedict About The Other Einstein

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