Talk:Mileva Marić: Difference between revisions

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It is a grotesque distortion of (historic) facts, and an insult to physicists and mathematicians dead and alive, not to mention to mathematics and physics students who are working hard, to call Mileva Marić a “Serbian physicist and mathematician” when the record (in the very same article) states that she failed her diploma exam twice, and in particular the mathematics part with grade 2.5 (that was and is between “Poor” and “Insufficient”), and also considering that she has never actually worked as a physicist or mathematician or even published any scientific work under her name. PointedEars (talk) 15:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As there has been no (negative) reaction, I have now removed the corresponding claims and references. —PointedEars (talk) 22:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While reviewing similar issues in articles of a similar topic, I noticed that the opening sentence of the article has undertaken to identify Mileva Marić as a “Serbian physicist and mathematician” – the exact phrase @PointedEars followed appropriate processes to solicit opinion on. With reference to MOS:CONTEXTBIO (I believe the example of Isaac Asimov is most relevant here?), Marić’s ethnicity isn’t to be included in the opening sentence. PointedEars’s edit [1] also made a valid point of emphasizing the reason for Marić’s prominence and relevance for inclusion in Wikipedia in the first place. There are many individuals of Serbian ethnicity who studied physics and mathematics, but only one of them was ever married to the man who developed the theory of relativity. Breadpachinko (talk) 23:17, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Breadpachinko, thank you for mentioning me which gave me the opportunity to remove the Marić fansʼ false and unfounded claims, and excessive education details again. I think this article should be protected to avoid further ideological (nationalist, feminist) historically-revisionist interference. PointedEars (talk) 10:08, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The squeeze mapping is the math behind Lorentz boosts, which are the main feature of special relativity. This mapping preserves hyperbolas such as the conjugate hyperbolas used by Minkowski to demarcate curves of equal time and equal distance from an origin event. The squeeze mappings arise in split-complex numbers, a structure mentioned by James Cockle in 1852. In Serbia, Roger Boscovich expounded on space and time in 1758, and later Vladimir Varićak studied him and taught Mileva Maric. Varićak described Lorentz boosts as actions of the unit hyperbola on spacetime using hyperbolic functions. The great contribution of Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein was to write the hyperbolic rotation with algebraic functions rather than the transcendental ones of Varićak. Their collaboration, at a crossroads in Switzerland, facilitated the cosmology springing from Serbia and English authors such as W. K. Clifford, and Alexander Macfarlane who described hyperbolic quaternions in the 1890s. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:54, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]