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.

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.

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.

Albert Einstein circa 1910: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), the German-Swiss-American mathematical atomic physicist and Nobel prizewinner, seen early in his career in a thoughtful pose.

Although Einstein's theories suggest nothing can move faster than the speed of light, two scientists have extended his equations to show what would happen if faster-than-light travel were possible.

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.

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.

Even Einstein can’t solve Millstone math by Matt Fossen, CT Mirror March 10, 2017 ...