There’s an apocryphal story that still occasionally surfaces about how Albert Einstein flunked math in the fourth grade. That’s not true. But he did occasionally need help with his math.

Albert Einstein via WikiMedia To avoid military duty, Einstein managed in 1896 to renounce his German citizenship and remained in Switzerland studying for a Mathematics and Physics Diploma.

S. James Gates, Jr., a theoretical physicist, explains how geometry, string theory and Einstein's mathematics have brought society closer to a theory of everything.

Einstein may not have been Esther Williams, but he was, as it turned out, a heck of a math tutor. After most every school day for four years, Leedom said Einstein would meet her at the bench.

Q. Was he a bad student? A. He started school at 6 1/2 and, according to an Albert Einstein Archives biography, his early teachers did not find him especially talented even though he got high marks.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A clue in the New York Times’s “The Mini Crossword” on Tuesday has the internet buzzing: Did Albert Einstein flunk math class in school? The allegation was first ...

Is the tale of Mrs. Einstein's math destined to fade away? It's more likely that it will live on as an urban legend, alongside the more substantial stories of women scientists.

In 1934, psychologist Max Wertheimer sent a letter to his friend, the physicist Albert Einstein, with the following puzzle enclosed. There's an old car that needs to go up and down a hill.

In a striking tribute to the mathematician Emmy Noether upon her death in 1935, Albert Einstein penned a New York Times appreciation lauding her discoveries, while at the same time drawing larger life ...

That’s right: Albert Einstein, math tutor. “Oh, I hated algebra and geometry,” Leedom, 86, told me.