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A Well Known Genuis – Albert Einstein
Some people help shape the world through their work and their legacy, others completely reform it in a flash with their accomplishments. Albert Einstein was one of the latter, and many scientists believe that people will still be making new discoveries and finding new applications based on his theories for generations to come. Albert Einstein trivia begins with the fact that he was born in 1879 in the German Empire. He was not as many have imagined some kind of child prodigy, although he did show aptitude for mathematics. Einstein’s genius came more from the fact that he worked hard and believed in allowing for free thinking and creativity in learning, something that would make him clash with teachers and members of the educational institutions he attended on more than one occasion, facts likely to appear on any Albert Einstein quiz.
Albert Einstein trivia can be a bit complex for those who are not physicists themselves, simply because most of the mans work and writing were so technical and specific that it can be hard for the non-initiate to grasp the significance of many of these discoveries. His earlier work however, regarded proving the existence of atoms for one, something which was suspected but not entirely accepted by the scientific community, and thermodynamics for a second.
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How I Became a Mathematician – It’s Not As Serious As You Think
I don’t know. I guess it all happened back in high school when a friend of mine called out in algebra class how much he hated logarithms. After that remark, I figured I was in for trouble as I was your average Sylvester Stallone look-alike, and certainly not what you would consider the “math nerd” type. At seventeen I got into bodybuilding. I had the swagger of an Italian kid cast out of the “Lords of Flatbush.” Who would have thought I would ever become a mathematician? But become one, I would.
Even though I had the type-cast build and look, my brain was different-I mean wired differently. At fifteen I started reading Isaac Asimov, and his two books, the “Human Body” and the “Human Brain,” both had a significant impact on me. These books taught me a love for science and soon thereafter I discovered that I just loved learning: the more curious and perplexing, the better. Mysterious things like math soon started getting my attention. Yet I felt totally inadequate to take on such a daunting challenge as to become learned in a field like mathematics. But this I would do.
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Mathematics and Faith
Just how does an abstract discipline like mathematics find itself mixed up with a notion as difficult to pin down as that of faith. What is this thing called faith anyway? As far as I can see, I never saw faith walking around, nor was I ever able to touch it. As much as I might have wanted a heavy dose of faith as a Christmas present some years, I do not ever remember anyone telling me that they just picked me up a nice piece of faith in the local mall and got a great deal on it.
In the Book of Hebrews of the New Testament of the Bible we read in Chapter 11, Verse 1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.” This has always been one of my favorite Bible verses I guess because of the profound implications of the statement. Faith has to be one of the greatest gifts with which God could have endowed man. Yet faith—in order to grow strong— is something that needs to be put into practice regularly, just like any other muscle in the body. Use it, or lose it, as the saying goes. Faith strengthens with use while it weakens through desuetude. Faith is simply not like some other tangible thing that you can get your finger around. Consequently, to embrace this elusive yet noble grace, man needs some kind of driver to bring faith to the surface of existence, a precursor, so to speak, which causes faith to bubble into one’s life and permits easy access to such.
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