A nice little interlude from Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre (Penguin, 2017), pages 74-77: Contrary to his popular image, Albert Einstein was not a great mathematician. Indeed, he struggled with mathematics. In 1943, a nine-year-old girl named […]
Published on April 24, 2020 22:33