Word: berliner
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...excruciating period. His marriage to Mileva Maric, an intense and brooding Serbian physicist who had helped him with the math of his 1905 paper, had just exploded. She had left him in Berlin and moved to Zurich with their sons Hans Albert, 11, and Eduard, 5. Suffering from acute stomach pains exacerbated by the food shortages of World War I, he was being nursed by a first cousin, Elsa Einstein, whom he would eventually marry...
...task. Although Einstein was the better physicist, Hilbert was the better mathematician. So in October 1915 Einstein threw himself into a monthlong frenzy in which he returned to an earlier mathematical strategy and wrestled with tensors, equations, proofs, corrections and updates that he rushed to give as lectures to Berlin's Prussian Academy of Sciences on four successive Thursdays--even as he was struggling to arrange a reconciliation with his sons...
...only so very superficially; just one of them [Hilbert] acknowledges it, insofar as he is seeking to partake in it, with great fanfare, after I had initiated him, with much effort, into the gist of the theory ... Heartfelt greetings, yours, Einstein So Einstein spent Christmas Day in his Berlin apartment. That morning, he took out of his satchel some of the drawings that Hans Albert had sent him and wrote the boy a postcard saying how much they pleased him. He would come for Easter, he promised. To Einstein's delight, his son enjoyed playing piano. "Maybe you can practice...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 16 February 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your letter about the condition of my youngest scares me less than you might think. Well-deserved punishment for my having taken the most important step in life so rashly. I begot children with a physically and morally inferior person and cannot complain if they turn out accordingly. Only they will accuse me one day when they are old enough; they will be only too right, unfortunately. So send my poor boy wherever you and Bernstein see fit, if you really think something of it. And even if you silently...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 2 June 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your last letter makes me worry anew because I see that the upkeep of my sick family has acquired a ruinous quality. My net income (after deduction of taxes, etc.) has been reduced to 13,000 marks (this case has now in fact come to pass). From that I need for myself, in order to make at least an appearance of maintaining the kind of lifestyle rightfully expected of me, 5,000 marks. If I don't want to save up a single penny, what's left is 8,000 marks...