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Article: THE PASSIONATE YOUNG EINSTEIN JUST PUBLISHED, COLLECTED PAPERS DISPEL MYTH THAT FAMED PHYSICIST WAS BORN AN OLD SAINT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 29, 1987
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As a boy, Albert Einstein was frustrated, he later wrote, by
music teachers who did "not go beyond technical proficiency." Then,
at 13 years old, he mastered Mozart's sonatas for violin -- and
opened his own door to the emotional world within the music.
As a young student of physics, Einstein was also frustrated by
formal instruction. But years before he gained confidence in his
new conceptions of time and space, Einstein sharpened his
intellectual tools by studying classical problems and current
theories, such as those concerning the velocity of light,
electromagnetic theory and molecular motion, according to newly-
published letters that recount his science apprenticeship between
the ...