Einstein’s top professor didn’t believe in his abilities

Just like so many of us, Einstein’s early life was filled with people who believed in him — teachers, family members, and peers — but also with a few notable people who had no faith in his abilities and saw little potential for success within him. Of all the people who had Einstein as a student, by far the most famous and prestigious was mathematician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hermann Minkowski</a>: a daring mathematical genius who himself was a child prodigy, winning the French Academy of Sciences’ Mathematics Prize at the unheard of age of 18, and who earned his doctorate at just age 20. Minkowski was best friends with David Hilbert, perhaps the greatest mathematician in all of the 19th and 20th centuries. At the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum, which today is the Swiss public research university <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ETH Zurich</a>, Minkowski <a href="https://www.bartbeemsterboer.nl/story-life-zurichpolytechnicinstitute.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">had Einstein as a student</a> in his classes. He remembered Einstein as: <a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/einsteins-top-professor-didn-t-believe-in-his-abilities-e4c526ff4c07">Read More</a>