Famous MathematicianAlbert Einstein

Where and when was Einstein born?

-Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879

- Died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Personal Life VS. Professional Life

Six weeks after being born his family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold

Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland. Later on

in his life he trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to

find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office.

Contributions.. Honors

Albert Einstein is an absolute famous mathematician for the following:

• provided powerful confirmation that atoms and molecules actually exist, through his analysis of Brownian motion.

• demonstrated the photoelectric effect, establishing that light can behave as both a wave and a particle. Light particles (he called them quanta) with the correct amount of energy can eject electrons from metals.

• proved that everyone, whatever speed we move at, measures the speed of light to be 300 million meters per second in a vacuum. This led to the strange new reality that time passes more slowly for people traveling at very high speeds compared with people moving more

slowly.

• discovered the hugely important and iconic equation, E = mc2, which showed that energy and matter can be converted into one another.

• rewrote the law of gravitation, which had been unchallenged since Isaac Newton published it in 1687

Famous quotes of:- "Imagination is more important than knowledge.“

- "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.“

- "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius --

and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

5 Interesting facts you might’ve not known about Einstein

• Einstein was supposedly slow to talk

• When Albert Einstein was five years old his father showed him a simple pocket compass.

• Einstein’s mother, Pauline, was an accomplished pianist and wanted her son to love music too, so she started him on violin

lessons.

• A few days after Zionist leader and first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann died on November 9, 1952, Einstein was asked if he would accept the position of being the second

president of Israel.

• Einstein loved sailing, even though he wasn’t very good at it

Would I party with this person??

•Definitely doesn’t seem like the party type, but of course!! :D

Death of: Einstein

This impactful man, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe

works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was only 76. His funeral and

cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture

everything that occurred that day.