Albert Einstein - a Condensed Biography
Jonathan Pagan December 15, 2012
Period 7 Honors English Ms. Chinea Albert Einstein – a Condensed Biography
Einstein. Is there a single person in our day and age who has not heard that name? For just about everyone, the name ‘Einstein’ conjures up images of an almost supernatural genius, whose intellectual abilities far surpassed that of the rest of the population. His name has even grown to become an adjective – describing someone as an ‘Einstein’ implies that they are incredibly smart, perhaps even on genius level. What made Albert Einstein so well known? What did he do to earn his prominent place in history? How did he become the giant whose shoulders scientists to come would stand on? And what made him tick? What sparked his interest in the fields he specialized in? I hope to answer all these questions and more – continue reading, and learn about the brain, Mister Albert Einstein. Einstein was born in 1879, in Ulm, Germany. He was the first child of Hermann and Pauline Einstein. In 1880, the Einstein family moved to Munich, where they would stay for several years. Besides his schooling, as a boy, Einstein received lessons on violin and on Judaism at home. When he was only 10, in 1889, Max Talmud (a friend of the family) introduced the little Einstein to key texts in science, math, and philosophy, including “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason” and “Euclid’s Elements”. Remarkably, by the age of twelve, Einstein had taught himself geometry – even at this young age, he showed signs of excelling above and beyond. Einstein had originally planned to pursue a career in electrical engineering. Suffice to say, thank goodness things did not go as planned – at the age of sixteen, he (astonishingly!) failed an exam to qualify to be an electrical engineer. It was because of this that he decided to re-plan his life – and decided he would pursue a career, instead, as a teacher of mathematics and physics. This choice played an exceedingly important role in
Period 7 Honors English Ms. Chinea Albert Einstein – a Condensed Biography
Einstein. Is there a single person in our day and age who has not heard that name? For just about everyone, the name ‘Einstein’ conjures up images of an almost supernatural genius, whose intellectual abilities far surpassed that of the rest of the population. His name has even grown to become an adjective – describing someone as an ‘Einstein’ implies that they are incredibly smart, perhaps even on genius level. What made Albert Einstein so well known? What did he do to earn his prominent place in history? How did he become the giant whose shoulders scientists to come would stand on? And what made him tick? What sparked his interest in the fields he specialized in? I hope to answer all these questions and more – continue reading, and learn about the brain, Mister Albert Einstein. Einstein was born in 1879, in Ulm, Germany. He was the first child of Hermann and Pauline Einstein. In 1880, the Einstein family moved to Munich, where they would stay for several years. Besides his schooling, as a boy, Einstein received lessons on violin and on Judaism at home. When he was only 10, in 1889, Max Talmud (a friend of the family) introduced the little Einstein to key texts in science, math, and philosophy, including “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason” and “Euclid’s Elements”. Remarkably, by the age of twelve, Einstein had taught himself geometry – even at this young age, he showed signs of excelling above and beyond. Einstein had originally planned to pursue a career in electrical engineering. Suffice to say, thank goodness things did not go as planned – at the age of sixteen, he (astonishingly!) failed an exam to qualify to be an electrical engineer. It was because of this that he decided to re-plan his life – and decided he would pursue a career, instead, as a teacher of mathematics and physics. This choice played an exceedingly important role in