Poincare, Hilbert, Riemann, Minkowski, and many others may have different opinions. And who knows where they got their ideas too. The truth of any invention is

Poincare, Hilbert, Riemann, Minkowski, and many others may have different opinions. And who knows where they got their ideas too. The truth of any invention is murky, but Einstein was the first to bring cosmology to the masses. So for those people who would not have known of such things, and feel more satisfied celebration of a name then understanding of an idea, he is the true inventor. Maybe it works the same way for the Romanian lay with regard to polymer science. They don’t really care about the science. They’re looking for a heroic myth.