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CHAPTER THREE: THE ZURICH POLYTECHNIC
1. Cahan, 42; editor’s note, CPAE 1 (German), p. 44.
2. Einstein 1949b, 15.
3. Record and Grade Transcript, Oct. 1896–Aug. 1900, CPAE 1: 28; Bucky, 24; Einstein to Arnold Sommerfeld, Oct. 29, 1912; Fölsing, 50.
4. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Feb. 1898; Cahan, 64.
5. Louis Kollros, “Albert Einstein en Suisse,”Helvetica Physica , Supplement 4 (1956): 22, in AEA 5-123; Adolf Frisch, in Seelig 1956a, 29;
Cahan, 67; Clark, 55.
6. Seelig 1956a, 30; Overbye, 43; Miller 2001, 52; Charles Seife, “The True and the Absurd,” in Brockman, 63.
7. Record and Grade Transcript, CPAE 1: 28.
8. Seelig 1956a, 30; Bucky, 25 (a slightly different version); Fölsing, 57.
9. Seelig 1956a, 30.
10. Einstein to Julia Niggli, July 28, 1899.
11. Seelig 1956a, 28; Whitrow, 5.
12. Einstein 1949b, 15–17.
13. Einstein interview in Bucky, 27; Einstein to Elizabeth Grossmann, Sept. 20, 1936, AEA 11-481; Seelig 1956a, 34, 207; Fölsing, 53.
14. Holton 1973, 209–212. Einstein’s stepson-in-law Rudolph Kayser and colleague Philipp Frank both say that Einstein read Föppl in his
spare time while at the Polytechnic.
15. Clark, 59; Galison, 32–34. Galison’s book on Poincaré and Einstein is a fascinating exposition on how they developed their concepts and
how Poincaré’s observations were “an anticipatory note to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, a brilliant move by an author lacking the
intellectual courage to pursue it to its logical, revolutionary end” (Galison, 34). Also very useful is Miller 2001, 200–204.
16. Seelig 1956a, 37; Whitrow, 5; Bucky, 156.
17. Miller 2001, 186; Hoffmann, 1972, 252; interview with Lili Foldes, The Etude , Jan. 1947, in Calaprice, 150; Einstein to Emil Hilb
questionnaire, 1939, AEA 86-22; Dukas and Hoffmann, 76.
18. Seelig 1956a, 36.
19. Fölsing, 51, 67; Reiser, 50; Seelig 1956a, 9.
20. Clark, 50. Diana Kormos Buchwald points out that a careful examination of the picture of him at the Aarau school shows holes in his jacket.
21. Einstein to Maja Einstein, 1898.
22. Einstein to Maja Einstein, after Feb. 1899.
23. Marie Winteler to Einstein, Nov. 4–25, 1896.
24. Marie Winteler to Einstein, Nov. 30, 1896.
25. Pauline Einstein to Marie Winteler, Dec. 13, 1896.
26. Einstein to Pauline Winteler, May 1897.
27. Marie Winteler to Einstein, Nov. 4–25, Nov. 30.
28. Novi Sad, the cultural center of the Serbian people, had long been a “free royal city,” then part of a Serbian autonomous region of the
Hapsburg Empire. By the time Mari was born, it was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. Approximately 40 percent of the citizens
there spoke Serbian when she was growing up, 25 percent spoke Hungarian, and about 20 percent spoke German. It is now the second
largest city, after Belgrade, in the Republic of Serbia.
29. Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 9–38; Dord Krstic, “Mileva Einstein-Mari ,” in Elizabeth Einstein, 85; Overbye, 28–33; Highfield and Carter,
33–38; Marriage certificate, CPAE 5: 4.
30. Dord Krstic, “Mileva Einstein-Mari ,” in Elizabeth Einstein, 88 (Krstic’s piece is based partly on interviews with school friends); Barbara
Wolff, an expert on Einstein’s life at the Hebrew University archives, says, “I imagine that Einstein was the main reason Mileva fled Zurich.”
31. Mileva Mari to Einstein, after Oct. 20, 1897.
32. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Feb. 16, 1898.
33. Einstein to Mileva Mari , after Apr. 16, 1898, after Nov. 28, 1898.
34. Recollection of Suzanne Markwalder, in Seelig 1956a, 34; Fölsing, 71.
35. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Mar. 13 or 20, 1899.
36. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 10, 1899, Mar. 1899, Sept. 13, 1900.
37. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Sept. 13, 1900, early Aug. 1899, Aug. 10, 1899.
38. Einstein to Mileva Mari , ca. Sept. 28, 1899.
39. Mileva Mari to Einstein, 1900.
40. Intermediate Diploma Examinations, Oct. 21, 1898, CPAE 1: 42.
41. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Sept. 10, 1899; Einstein 1922c (see bibliography for explanation about this Dec. 14, 1922, lecture in Kyoto,
Japan).
42. Einstein, 1922c; Reiser, 52; Einstein to Mileva Mari , ca. Sept. 28, 1899; Renn and Schulmann, 85, footnotes 11: 3, 11: 4. Wilhelm Wien’s
paper was delivered in Sept. 1898 in Düsseldorf and published in the Annalen der Physik 65, no. 3 of that year.
43. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Oct. 10, 1899; Seelig 1956a, 30; Fölsing, 68; Over-bye, 55; final diploma examinations, CPAE 1: 67. The essay
marks as recorded in CPAE are multiplied by 4 to reflect their weight in the final results.
44. Final diploma examinations, CPAE 1: 67.
45. Einstein to Walter Leich, Apr. 24, 1950, AEA 60-253; Walter Leich memo describing Einstein, Mar. 6, 1957, AEA 60-257.
46. Einstein, 1949b, 17.
47. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 1, 1900.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE LOVERS
1. Einstein to Mileva Mari , ca. July 29, 1900.
2. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 6, 1900.
3. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 1, Sept. 13, Oct. 3, 1900.
4. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 30, 1900.