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In 1905 Albert Einstein, 26 years old, wrote several reports about special relativity. Some historians speculate that his wife, Mileva Marić, significantly contributed to elaborate the new theory of space and time, mainly in its mathematical component. Mileva did in fact study physics and mathematics with Albert at the Zurich Polytechnic. But Mileva never completed her studies, because she failed the mathematics examinations. In any case, there are no documents to prove her original contributions to special relativity.

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  1. They used, at least when corresponding by letter, the Sie, the formal form of ‘you’ for addressing each other, then in use among even young German-speaking people.

  2. This and the other letters quoted in the rest of the paper can be found in the volumes 1 and 5 of [3].

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    Pietro Greco

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Greco, P. Mileva Marić. Lett Mat Int 5, 43–48 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-017-0158-4

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