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> Einstein and Newton are products, not individuals, of an ancient marketing campaign. You managed to pick two of the most alone geniuses in history. Newton w
by hwillis 5y ago
> Einstein and Newton are products, not individuals, of an ancient marketing campaign.
You managed to pick two of the most alone geniuses in history. Newton was afraid to even tell anyone about calculus because he was worried about being mocked. Einstein's miracle year was done completely outside academia and the only two other people in the Olympia Academy said they had nothing to do with it.
- mcguire 5y ago"Newton was afraid to even tell anyone about calculus because he was worried about being mocked." He was more worried about being scooped. And he was the president of the Royal Society when that argument broke out. Would Einstein still be more famous than Edsger Dijkstra if he hadn't become the media's face of science?
- recuter 5y agoHindsight is 2020. Einstein had some help with the boring bits of math and the ideas were vaguely "in the air" at the time and being worked on by several individuals, fair enough. Even still, I haven't met anyone who, for example, knows and understands the full derivation of his most famous equation that would say his fame is overstated.