The Great Mathematician
“Unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office” (“Albert Einstein”) where music played a major role of encouragement and he sometimes used it as an excuse for his poor performance at school and for becoming a teacher. It was here where he managed to work many of his exceptional works and by 1909, at the age of 30, he became a Professor. Albert Einstein, a great Mathematician grew up to achieve a lot to become a globally known scientist because of his persistence and self-courage.
Changing his citizenship from German, to Swiss in 1901, then to German again renouncing it in 1933 because of political concerns and finally American in 1940, no wonder his saying, “it is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education” (“Quotations by Author”). He worked at the above different locations as a University Professor at different capacities, which contributed a lot to his achievements and recognized with honorary doctorates in the universities he lectured. Moreover, Albert Einstein became a member for all renowned scientific academic institutions globally (“Albert Einstein”). As a chief figure in the political scene after the Second World War, he refused to take top government post as president of Israel but rather worked with Dr. Chaim Weizmann in founding the Jerusalem University (“Albert Einstein”).
He had the capacity to solve many problems that faced him and “had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize main stages to achieve his goal” (“Albert Einstein”). Ever since he was a young boy aged two and three, he taught himself to communicate fully on any issue he encountered. For example, when reacting to a question from another person “he would form a sentence in his mind and then try it out on himself (Holton and Elkana 419) where many could think that he was nuts talking to himself. In addition, to Einstein, mathematics had many pleasing questions. His involvement in science was a proper profession because he once said if he had a choice of occupation, then it could be plumbing. Einstein’s consternation character was evident when he explained the concept of triangles as preservative attribute in creating good maps. His contrasting approach on both physics, a demanding and unchangeable exploration of the nature laws and Mathematical reciprocal action for unlike groups presented exceptional concern to many scientists (Holton and Elkana 420).
In the beginning of his research works in the early 1900s, he could not harmonize the electromagnetic and the mechanics laws due to the weak presentation of the relativity theory in 1915. However, he worked on classical analysis of significant numerical data that came to detail the Brownian theory. In addition, his analysis on thermal light characteristics by low electromagnetic energy emissions gave green light on the photon theory. His new revelation in physics brought about mental strains and excitement between “culture and science” (qtd. in Holton and Elkana 271) where the quest by other serious thinking scientists to answer his conceptions of social equality and establishment by progression existing between common person and science was extraordinary.
With his great intellectual capabilities, his assumption on appropriate meaning of the relativity theory was significant in completion of the gravitational theory in 1916 in Germany. In addition, he assisted in solving problems of electromagnetic and statistical motions. By the 1920s, he was working on the harmonized field suppositions. His interest in physics saw him continue his contribution to physics and by 1921; he won the Physics Nobel prize.
It is no doubt that Albert Einstein has been and will continue to inspire many young scientists to be creative and imaginative because the power of imagination has great value as it surrounds the globe compared to understanding whose capacity to understand is limited. His ambitions to success teach us about the meaning of persistence and self-courage, certainly a great character to study.
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