Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Albert Einstein

Starting out as a boy whose teachers did not see a great amount of potential in him, Albert Einstein grew into a man with one of the most brilliant minds in history. I don’t think there is another man more widely known throughout the world, other than perhaps Jesus, and rightfully so. Einstein’s contributions to math and science throughout the ages have been very profound, one of his greatest contributions to modern mathematics and science was his creation of the equation for energy, E= MC^2. I found it very interesting that Einstein was thought of as “slow” by his teachers, because I think that he probably was just bored with the lessons in school and therefore did not feel the need to put in much of an effort. However, as everyone later saw, he was extremely intelligent with things that interested him, and these things made him really start thinking outside the box in ways that people most people couldn’t. It seems like many of the world’s great minds started out rough; Charles Darwin also did poorly in school as a young boy simply because he had no interest in what was being taught, just like Einstein.

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