# Mathematician:Albert Einstein

## Mathematician

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

German

## History

• Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
• Died: 18 April 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

## Theorems and Definitions

• Various equations and formulas deriving from the above:

Results named for Albert Einstein can be found here.

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

## 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?