Answer by Eric Baird for What was the relationship between Einstein and...
Einstein believed that his insufficiently deferential attitude to his professors was what caused him to end up in the scientific "wilderness", unable to get a job in research. He was convinced that the...
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There is a monolithic Einstein myth consolidated by scores of popular books which is a great inconvenience for anybody trying to make some sense of the history. Cornifold's answer and refs already...
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A good account is Weinstein, Max Born, Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski's Space-Time Formalism of Special Relativity. They did no have much of a relationship, what it was is well-summarized by...
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I read many Einstein's Biographies, but Minkowski was never mentioned, though his discovery of the union of space and time created the basis for GR. Minkowski was Einstein's teacher of mathematics in...
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