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Re:Charles Darwin: Genius or Plodder? by 11235813213455 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:28AM (#18159131)
Not always understandable by Einstein itself, he got helped by his mathematician friends, like Levi Civita
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Re:Charles Darwin: Genius or Plodder? by nyc111 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:51AM (#18159198)
True. And also he got mathematical help from Marcel Grossmann. Poincare too was doing work on the theory of relativity.

Also one of the selling points of relativity in the early days was the difficulty of its math. I think it was Eddington who said that "only three people understood General Relativity."

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