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
• 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 David Hilbert)
• Einstein-Hilbert Equations (with David Hilbert)

Results named for Albert Einstein can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Albert Einstein can be found here.

Publications

• 1905: On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular-kinetic Theory of Heat (Annalen der Physik Vol. 17: p. 549)
• 1906: On the Theory of the Brownian Movement (Annalen der Physik Vol. 19: pp. 371 – 381)
• 1906: On a New Determination of Molecular Dimensions (Annalen der Physik Vol. 19: pp. 289 – 306)
• 1907: Theoretical Observations on the Brownian Motion (Zeit f. Elektrochemie Vol. 13: pp. 41 – 42)
• 1908: Elementary Theory of the Brownian Motion (Zeit f. Elektrochemie Vol. 14: pp. 235 – 239)
• 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: Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement (translated by A.D. Cowper)
• 1945: The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields surrounding the Individual Stars (with Ernst Gabor Straus)
• 1946: A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation, II (Ann. Math. Vol. 47: pp. 731 – 741) (with Ernst Gabor Straus)  www.jstor.org/stable/1969231

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 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: 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 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: 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 1993: Richard J. Trudeau: Introduction to Graph Theory: $1$. Pure Mathematics: Why study pure mathematics?

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• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Albert Einstein": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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