Did Einstein suck at mathematics?

Jessie Franklin, I wish I was good at math, don't need to be a genius.

I wish I could have had the same grasp that he had with mathmatics.

Einstein did not even understand the concept of linear independence which is nowadays taught at grade 10 level! His use of mathematics to formulate General Relativity was abysmal!

djaiudijr, So true, about having the right instructor. My 9th grade teacher, spent extra time with me and another student who were a little slower than the rest of the class. We all skipped 8th grade and went to 9th grade, directly from 7th grade. Once I grasped the basics, i wound up with an A by the end of the year, and from then onward, Mathematics and Physics were a breeze, through advanced Calculus. But having a teacher devote just a little more time was the trick for me and I am still a decent mathematician.

I hated math in elemetray school, but when I got in high school and took bookkeeping, I did well in it. Strange thing about that.

I'm in my early 70s and math has been and will always be my obsession. One of the ways to appreciate nature and its beauty is to delve into the complexities of patterns and forms embedded in creation. Mathematics, through its abstract reasoning and precise logic, helps us, in more ways than one, to appreciate the brilliance of the Maker's mind. This enabler has a lot of explaining to do why humanity suffers from its foibles. Yet this mysterious being does not want to interfere. It just allows nature to take its course, believing that humanity would soon realize the error of its ways, correct the misgivings, learn to comprehend the essence of life, and truly understand the finite nature of needs and wants. The great Albert Einstein is probably one of his disciples.

I personally was terrible at math, he's just one of the lucky ones.

Born Lucky I salute you

Contrary to general opinion, Einstein was not a mathematical genius. In Physics yes, but he was “relatively” weak in the highest level of mathematics required to demonstrate his Theory of Relativity. That honor goes S. N. Bose, as shown in the Encyclopedia Britannica quote of Aug 13, 2018. “Bose-Einstein condensates were first predicted theoretically by Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974), an Indian physicist who also discovered the subatomic particle named for him, the boson. Bose was working on statistical problems in quantum mechanics, and sent his ideas to Albert Einstein” in 1922. They never met, but it is clear that in some ways he understood the Theory better than Einstein himself. Bose was a very modest man and his genius is not well recorded, and he soon returned to India to resume his quite life. At least his contribution to physics is there in the naming of the Boson – despite Mr. Higgs thinking otherwise.

I think iot was in his elementary or grade school days when the teachers thought he was dumb - in truth he was bored

He would have school found boring. I don't know what grammar has to with it

lfs, where are the grammatical and syntactical errors, please elaborate.

I always figured the stuff I have read about him and math was BS, he was a genius.

Where is your editor — failure to correct grammatical and syntactical errors casts doubt as to credibility.

As far as I am concerned, Einstein was a maestro at math and physics. The proof is in the pudding of what he postulated and proved and is now being used as template by modern scholars