Einstein failed maths at school
It's the story told to every struggling student: even the greatest physicist of the century flunked maths as a boy. Did he?
Myth or fact? Reveal
Myth. Shown the claim in a 1935 newspaper column, Einstein replied that he had never failed in mathematics, and that before he was fifteen he had mastered differential and integral calculus.
— Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe — 2007
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