5
. Vivienne Anderson to Einstein, Apr. 27, 1953, AEA 60-714; Einstein to Vivienne Anderson, May 12, 1953, AEA 60-716.
6
. Viereck, 377. See also Thomas Friedman, “Learning to Keep Learning,”
Dec. 13, 2006.
7
. Einstein to Mileva Mari
, Dec. 12, 1901; Hoffmann and Dukas, 24. Hoff-mann was Einstein’s friend in the late 1930s in Princeton. He notes, “His early suspicion of authority, which never wholly left him, was to prove of decisive importance.”
8
. Einstein message for Ben Scheman dinner, Mar. 1952, AEA 28-931.
CHAPTER TWO: CHILDHOOD
1
. Einstein to Sybille Blinoff, May 21, 1954, AEA 59-261; Ernst Straus, “Reminiscences,” in Holton and Elkana, 419; Vallentin, 17; Maja Einstein, lviii.
2
. See, for example, Thomas Sowell,
(New York: Basic Books, 2002).
3
. Nobel laureate James Franck quoting Einstein in Seelig 1956b, 72.
4
. Vallentin, 17; Einstein to psychologist Max Wertheimer, in Wertheimer, 214.
5
. Einstein to Hans Muehsam, Mar. 4,1953, AEA 60-604. Also: “I think we can dispense with this question of heritage,” Einstein is quoted in Seelig 1956a, 11. See also Michelmore, 22.
6
. Maja Einstein, xvi; Seelig 1956a, 10.
7
. www.alemannia-judaica.de/synagoge_buchau.htm.
8
. Einstein to Carl Seelig, Mar. 11, 1952, AEA 39-13; Highfield and Carter, 9.
9
. Maja Einstein, xv; Highfield and Carter, 9; Pais 1982, 36.
10
. Birth certificate, CPAE 1: 1; Fantova, Dec. 5, 1953.
11
. Pais 1982, 36–37.
12
. Maja Einstein, xviii. Maria was sometimes used as a stand-in for the name Miriam in Jewish families.
13
. Frank 1947, 8.
14
. Maja Einstein, xviii–xix; Folsing, 12; Pais 1982, 37.
15
. Some researchers view such a pattern as possibly being a mild manifestation of autism or Asperger’s syndrome. Simon Baron-Cohen, the director of the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University, is among those who suggest that Einstein might have exhibited characteristics of autism. He writes that autism is associated with a “particularly intense drive to systemize and an unusually low drive to empathize.” He also notes that this pattern “explains the ‘islets of ability’ that people with autism display in subjects like math or music or drawing—all skills that benefit from systemizing.” See Simon Baron-Cohen, “The Male Condition,”
