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50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

ALBERT EINSTEIN FLUNKED MATH

Many subpar math students have been consoled by encouraging teachers who remind them that even Einstein — history’s most famous mathematical genius — flunked math class. He did not. He mastered differential and integral calculus by 15, and taught himself algebra and geometry with books his parents bought him before he was 12 so he could master the fields on his own over summer vacation.

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