I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.


Response to being shown a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" column with the headline "Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics" in 1935. Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 16

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Albert Einstein Quotes

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.