But Mileva, emboldened by her father for whom educationwas essential, is determined to master physics and mathematics. So the reaction of her exclusively male classmates and teachers are not that surprising for her. Her short size and limping did not help, at a time when this slight handicap was enough to make it difficult to find a spouse. Back in Serbia, her homeland, Mileva has already had to suffer from classmates, male and female, when they realized her difference and the scope of her ambition. The retelling of Mileva’s life opens on her first day at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University, in Zürich, one of the few universities in Europe to grant womendegrees in 1896. Her aim then became to “tell the story of a brilliant woman whose light has been lost in Albert’s enormous shadow.” And she does it beautifully, in a first person narrative, the most appropriate for this goal in mind. It’s funny how some authors find a topic, or rather a topic finds them: while helping her son with a book report on Einstein, she discovered his wife Mileva Marić and was intrigued. So it was a book I was really looking forward to diving into. She seemed to be very deep and simple at the same time, and very articulate. I also heard the author Marie Benedict talk in a panel. The Other Einstein was a big hype at BEA 2016. Follow Sourcebooks on Twitter, Facebook and on Pinterest MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BOOK
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