preview

Einstein And Galileo Comparison

Decent Essays

Neither Einstein nor Galileo were pure mathematicians, what do I mean by this? Simply neither of them pursued mathematics as their only science, both of them were much more a physicist or inventor than a mathematician. Yet the age-old question keeps on being brought up, who was the greater mathematician ? The elementary answer is Einstein.
Galileo was born on the 15th of February 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He is known to be an astronomer, physicist, mathematician as well as carry other titles. Galileo started out by studying medicine at university, but then became intrigued by what is known as the pure science, mathematics, and was motivated to investigate mathematics by Ostilio Ricci, a mathematician in the court of the Tuscan Grand Duke. Galileo impressed this mathematician with his curiosity and Ricci agreed to tutor him, Ricci tutored him from 1581 to 1585. In 1583, Galileo made his first major discovery; that each swing of a pendulum, regardless of width, takes an equal amount of time to swing between the extremes of its arc. Then in 1585 was forced to leave the university without a degree because of various factors. After this, he decided to become a private tutor for mathematics and continue with some of his own experiments. He invented a device to …show more content…

Both Einstein and Galileo were teachers, more specifically in mathematics, as well as both influential inventors. However, there is a claim that Einstein's success in relativity is due to Galileo who was the first to propose relativity. The writer of this claim says that Einstein was bad at math and physics, regardless of this claim I do not agree as it was biased claim and not neutral from where he began his article. Some of the statements he makes are true but his writing conveys emotion and blame. In this writers claim he begins his article saying "in general when many texts deal with Galileo’s relativity they do it wrong. I deem this corruption as due to Einstein’s

Get Access