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The Other Einstein

By: Marie Benedict
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This 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.

Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most 20-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. 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.

©2016 Marie Benedict (P)2016 Random House Audio Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage Biography Heartfelt Student Mathematics
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as soon as i started to listen to this story the raw horrid truth of it seemed to strike as truth to me which encouraged me to do my own research as i was listening, in doing so the sexist, mysoginist dismissal of her is immediately obvious

wow a must listen for any fan of einstein

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I found this fiction piece abusive to the legacy of both of the Einsteins. Albert is demonized well beyond any factual evidence, His poor wife, who was undoubtedly poorly treated by her husband, is portrayed to be completely incapable of sound reasoning in her evaluation of situations from the moment she met her husband to be. A little schitzophrenic for a character portrayed to be the real creator of the relativity theory? The narator did a good job.

This book started well, but quickly dereriorated

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