Great Mathematicians

Great Mathematicians

Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein

Contents

Why I have chose EinsteinBackgroundMarriages and ChildrenHonours and awards receivedContributions to Mathematics

Theory of RelativityDeath

Why I have chosen Einstein

I have chosen Einstein because I believe that he was one of the best, if not the best mathematician.

Without his workings we would not be as advanced as we are in the fields of both Maths and Science today

Einstein was not your stereotype Maths or Science teacher, he tried to create the image of Maths and Science as being fun.

This picture of him may seem a little odd but the reason he is putting on a silly face is to make the statement that Maths and Science doesn’t have to be boring.

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Background

Albert Einstein was born on the 14th March 1879 and died on the 18th April 1955.

He was a German-born theoretical physicist.

He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2.

Unlike most physicists he struggled with maths.

He lived in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the USA.

Although he is mainly considered a Scientist he was also a Mathematician

Marriages and children Einstein married Mileva Marić on January 6, 1903, although Einstein's mother had objected to the match because she had a prejudice against Serbs and thought Marić "too old" and "physically defective.“

Einstein and Mileva Maric had a daughter, Lieserl Einstein, born in early 1902. Her fate is unknown.

On May 14, 1904, Albert and Mileva's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Berne, Switzerland.

Their second son, Eduard, was born in Munich on July 28, 1910.

Marriage and children continued

Einstein and Marić divorced on February 14, 1919, having lived

apart for five years. On June 2 of that year, Einstein

married Elsa Löwenthal, who had nursed him through an illness. Elsa was Albert's first cousin

maternally and his second cousin paternally. Together the

Einsteins raised Margot and Ilse, Elsa's daughters from her first

marriage. Their union produced no children.

Honours/awards received

In 1999, Albert Einstein was named “Person of the century” by Time magazine

The Gallup poll recorded him as the fourth most admired person of the 20th century

According to The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Einstein is "the greatest scientist of the twentieth century and one of the supreme intellects of all time." The International union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the World Year of Physics” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Annus Mirabilis Papers.

Honours and awards received continuedThe Albert Einstein Memorial by Robert Berks

A unit used in photochemistry, the einstein

The chemical elemant 99, einsteinium

The asteroid 2001 EinsteinThe Albert Einstein AwardThe Albert Einstein Peace Prize

In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple

He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921

Contributions to Mathematics

His theory of relativity was a huge contribution to maths as well as science.

His proofs were largely through mathematical ideas.

What is the theory of Relativity?

The Theory of Relativity was created by Galileo Galilei in the 1600s. It was then developed more by Albert Einstein in the early 1900’s

The theory of relativity is two theories. The first is Special Relativity and the second is General Relativity.

Special Relativity

Special Relativity says that every person has their own time. 

One person's clock says something different from another person's clock

The reason a person's time can be different from another's is because of Time Dilation, which can be thought of more easily by the Twin Paradox.

The Twin Paradox The Twin Paradox shows how time is changed because of speed and mass. The faster someone moves or the more mass they have, the slower time passes for them. 

This is shown by a pair of twins. Imagine that one of the twins goes away at fast speeds while the other twin stays home. When he returns, the twin that travelled will be younger than his brother who stayed at home. 

This is because time moved slower for him while he was traveling than for his brother who stayed home.

General Relativity

General Relativity adds gravity to Special Relativity. It says that space and time are joined together

Space is like a grid. Balls (planets) on the grid bend it because of their weight or speed.

As one ball moves towards another it falls towards the other ball due to the dent in the grid. It can be shown by putting balls on a trampoline. The dent in the grid is like gravity.

Death On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm, which had previously been diagnosed and reinforced.

He died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76, having continued to work until near the end.

Einstein's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered.

Before the cremation, Princeton Hospital pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey removed Einstein's brain for preservation, without the permission of his family, in hope that the neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent. No-one has yet been able to discover what made Einstein more intelligent than other people are.