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He never "flunked a math exam" in school. Upon seeing a column making this claim, Einstein said "I never failed in mathematics.
Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
Einstein did, however, fail his first entrance exam into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School (ETH) in 1895, when he was two years younger than his fellow students, but scored exceedingly well in the mathematics and science sections, then passed on his second attempt.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 26, 2021 1:19 AM |
But it's still true that he underachieved in college:
[Quote]In college, Einstein often struggled in math, getting 5s and 6s (out of a possible 6) in physics, but getting only 4s in most of his math courses (barely a passing grade). His mathematics professor, and future collaborator, Hermann Minkowski called him a “lazy dog” and physics professor, Jean Pernet, even flunked Einstein with a score of 1 in an experimental physics course.
[Quote]At the end of college, Einstein had the dubious distinction of graduating as the second-to-worst student in the class.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 23, 2021 8:48 PM |
Einstein invented gravity.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 24, 2021 6:24 PM |
r2 I don't know if that was meant as a joke; but generally I would say: and?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 24, 2021 6:52 PM |
You don’t need a university education to be a genius…it is more likely that university bored Einstein because he obviously had ideas about time and space that they hadn’t even pondered or even consider.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 24, 2021 7:20 PM |
There's no evidence Einstein had any such ideas when he was in college.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 26, 2021 1:19 AM |
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