Re: How did Einstein Develop his Field Equations? When: A. He admitted having little math

Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:

Am Freitag000003, 03.01.2025 um 21:30 schrieb Mild Shock:

Hi,
 
Einstein had further sympathetic features:
 
1. avid sailor, owned several small boats
    Einstein: Yes      Poincaré: No
 
2. talking walks with Gödel in Princeton
    Einstein: Yes      Poincaré: No
 
3. Answering "I am a pacifist and a scientist."
    to U.S. immigration authorities:
    Einstein: Yes      Poincaré: No
 
4. Easy memes like Einstein / Zweistein / Dreistein
https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/583919907970845584/
    Einstein: Yes      Poincaré: No
 
5. What else?
 

 
Sure, Einstein was certainly interesting.
 
Einstein was also a good musician and could play violin.

There are differing accounts of how good he was at it.
Certainly not at a professional level.

He was most likely fluent in French, because he was friend with people,
who didn't speak German (Marie Curie, for instance, or George Lemaitre).

Not just likely, known to be.
Einstein was fluent in French,
but native speakers have commented on his German accent.
(or perhaps a Swiss accent)
It was his English that remained poor. (but passable)
He was friends with many Americans who didn't speak any other language.
(like NAACP members)

Poincare, on the other hand, was an extremely good mathematician and
also a very productive theoretical physicist.

Certainly, and also a good practicing engineer.

So, whom would you chose as - say- professor in theoretical physics???

No doubt both will do.
With persons of that calibre you will always learn a lot.

Einstein would make an excellent musician, but Poincare would be the
better physicist, of course, because playing the violin wasn't necessary
for a physicist.

Hmmm. Playing a musical instrument was almost a requirement for
belonging to the civilised upper classes, in those days.
When staying at each others houses they often made music together.
Sometimes they even made arrangements
to practice a particular piece beforehand,

Jan