Mathematician:Albert Einstein

Mathematician
German-born mathematician and physicist. Probably the most famous scientist of all time.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
 * 1933: Moved to the United States
 * Died: 18 April 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Einstein Summation Convention


 * Theory of Special Relativity
 * Theory of General Relativity


 * Various equations and formulas deriving from the above:
 * Einstein's Mass-Velocity Equation
 * Einstein's Law of Motion
 * Einstein's Mass-Energy Equation


 * Einstein-Hilbert Action (with )
 * Einstein-Hilbert Equations (with )

Publications

 * 1908: Consequences for the constitution of radiation following from the energy distribution law of black bodies
 * 1920: Ether and the Theory of Relativity
 * 1921: Geometry and Experience
 * 1926: (translated by )
 * 1945: The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields surrounding the Individual Stars (with )
 * 1908: Consequences for the constitution of radiation following from the energy distribution law of black bodies
 * 1920: Ether and the Theory of Relativity
 * 1921: Geometry and Experience
 * 1926: (translated by )
 * 1945: The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields surrounding the Individual Stars (with )

Notable Quotes

 * But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say


 * How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of existence, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say


 * ... common sense is, as a matter of fact, nothing more than layers of preconceived notions stored in our memories and emotions for the most part before age eighteen.
 * -- Quoted in : $1$. Pure Mathematics: Why study pure mathematics?