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Einstein's report card.
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The geography grade at is kinda an early tell of his attitude I think -- geography is not especially interesting (not as interesting as some other things), so that even though he could have very easily aced it with any effort I suppose, he didn't bother, but perhaps I fancy he might have just glanced at the maps a short time, and perhaps quickly closed that book or notes and moved on to some other thing more interesting, maybe some math or physics, perhaps.
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The myth that Einstein was bad at maths might stem from the historical fact it was not Einstein who suggested non Euclidean geometry as the mathematical basis for general relativity, but his friend Marcel Grossmann whose lecture notes Einstein borrowed when skipping lectures at uni.
By comparison Newton had to invent calculus as a parallel activity when developing his theory for gravity.
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Good point. That Einstein might not have been a mathematician particularly doesn't really mean he didn't understand quite well the math he needed for his theories.
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Of course Leibniz had something to say about that.
And Newton had limitations too. Such as vehement opposition to light as a wave.
Indeed - those who did believe light was a wave were ridiculed by Newton and others.
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While Leibnitz and Newton accused each other of plagiarism, they independently developed calculus.
When it came to ridicule both were subjected to this treatment by philosophers of the time such as George Berkeley as the concept of infinity was incomplete.
By the early 19th century when infinity was defined as a limit did calculus start to make sense to philosophers.
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