This was something Einstein's intuition was nearly a century ahead on, as revealed by the work on the stress-energy pseudo-tensor. He did discover the proper action principle for Relativity right after, and Noether in Hilbert's school also contributed a major result on the interpretation of the symmetries of the action, but Hilbert just didn't have a knack for the physical aspects, the energy, the waves, etc. Hilbert tried to steal General Relativity from Einstein (to "nostrify" it, in Einstein's phrase), because he thought he could do the math better. The rivalry with Hilbert is given more dramatic license, but it was actually more intense than it was portrayed in emotional terms. Einstein is shown living alone in 1915, like a hobo, in a small flat, without adequate food, with nothing but notebooks to keep him company, as he completes the calculations for the precession of Mercury and the field equations. The General Relativity part is remarkably true to the preserved history, and extremely illuminating. The relativity work was following Poincare closely, who was close behind. The majority of the early work on molecules and statistics was started in 1902-1904, including two forgettable early papers. There are minor inaccuracies in the dates, the falling elevator idea is in 1907 at the patent office, not in 1910, although the fleshing out of the idea didn't come until later. Einstein is neither portrayed inaccurately as stealing her ideas, nor is he portrayed as in a conventional marriage. Nevertheless, Maric was obviously one of the discussion partners in the early years, a role also taken by Besso and Grossman, and much later by assistants Peter Bergmann, Nathan Rosen and Robert Kraichnan. This allowed him to do much more work alone. Einstein's job, unlike the portrayal, often allowed him to go to the library ostensibly to research a patent. The early role of Mileva Maric as discussion partner, sounding board, proof-er and scientifically literate copy editor, is portrayed plausibly, although it is conjecture. The dialog is true to Einstein's personality, and Einstein's rough and tumble working class sense of humor. Unlike other made up Einstein quotes, this one, he actually could have said. Einstein didn't have google, nor would he have cared to fact-check his pithy quotes. While a metronome is anachronistic for Mozart, Einstein wouldn't have known that.
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The phrase "Mozart's metronome" in the series was singled out earlier by a likely anti-socialist or anti-Semitic negative reviewer.
Einstein authored hundreds of scientific papers, covering about a dozen subjects, and several books, including one popular book on the history of the field idea. This is a biography of a figure who is shrouded in hagiography and myth, so it is important that they are following the carefully researched semi-scientific biography of Walter Isaacson, which, for a refreshing change, actually bothered to READ and UNDERSTAND the entirety of what Einstein wrote.