What did Albert Einsteain contribute to mathematics?

Question

I am doing a research project for math, and I need to know what Einstein did to contribute to the field of mathematics.

Answer 1

Actually, Einstein wasn't all that remarkable at mathematics. In fact, he had to learn a lot of the advanced stuff as he went along in developing special and general relativity.  He depended heavily on his wife, Maric, who was also a physicists. Mathematics wise, Einstein really depended upon his friend Marcel Grossman who was far more advanced in math than Einstein.

Answer 2

E=mc^2

Answer 3

Einstein didn't contribute a lot to mathematics.  He actually wasn't very good at math, and had a lot of help from his wife, who was a physisist, with his math.  That's not to say he was bad at math--he was thousands of times better at math than most of us, but his physics for general relativity required some cutting-edge, high powered math that 99.99% of the population does not understand, so he was not as good as some others in the field.  But he was much better at visualizing what the math meant, which was his genius.  I think that some topology and multi-dimensional non-euclidean geometry is required for general relativity, so I am sure that his theory contributed to these fields of math, but these were developed by others, not by himself.   I'd argue that his theories contributed to mathematics by inspiring other people to figure them out, but I don't know the details, sorry!

Answer 4

I'm not sure if Einstein contributed much to mathematics. General Relativity is in the realm of physics, which of course uses math. It's not like Newton's development of the calculus, for instance. Newton was contributing to math and physics at the same time. Einstein revolutionized our understanding of space-time, gravity, and energy, and helped lay some of the groundwork for quantum mechanics.

Answer 5

He discovered "E=Mc2"

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