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Re:Do you need to know math for doing great science? by fengwick3 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:14AM (#10936846)
I think you are a little hasty in assuming that the author had the popular misconception that Einstein was bad at math. Certainly, Einstein was much better at math than the average man, but among his fellow physicists, not to mention the handful of physicists as celebrated as he is, his mathematical skills pales in comparison.

In other words, his contributions to science arose from his exceptional physical insights, and not his mathematical brilliance.

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Re:Do you need to know math for doing great science? by lutusp on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:00PM (#10939459)
> In other words, his contributions to science arose from his exceptional physical insights, and not his mathematical brilliance.

True about special relativity, certainly false about general relativity. Between 1905 and 1915, Einstein learned the mathematics required to formulate and write the general theory.

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