A book recommendation for you mathematitian's!

You don't understand, special relativity is on a whole 'nother level with relation to his other work. Spec.rel was a revolutionary theory at the time, it introduced some incredible ideas. That is why Einstein is recognised mainly as the guy who derived the theories of relativity, even to the general public. It's just not comparable to his other work.

alongside an interview and various teambuilding activities involves a pretty hard mental arithmetic test that you have to be super quick and effecient at working out hard sums in your head

How can he be an idiot and be a theoretical physicist at the university of Plymouth. I think you will find that despite your burgeoning ego he understands physics and everything required to study the field far better than you.

The university of Plymouth isn't exactly the most reputable uni in the country. Take a look at their course requirements (physics isn't even offered). Either way, theoretical physicist or not, he says Einstein is not a genius, and then you give me evidence he says he is. 'Nuff said.

Interesting isn’t it. Because he was a little slow learning to talk, it’s speculated that he was dyslexic, and from that you infer that he was bad at numeracy. If you intend to be a physicist you may have to take a different approach.

Not once did I say Einstein was bad at numeracy. Numeracy has nothing to do with it. Most people can be good at numeracy, as long as you have no specific condition such as dyscalculia, it just takes a lot of effort.

I can picture the scene now… Young Albert sitting in the class, struggling with numeracy. ‘Don’t worry Albert,’ says his teacher. We’ll just move on to higher mathematics. Last time I checked, you had to learn the basic first.

Either you're doing that deliberately to wind me up, or you just can't seem to get it into your head. Numeracy isn't "the basic". It has NOTHING to do with maths, it just helps speed up the process a little. Ask anyone who has even a slight understanding of what maths is about and they'll agree with me (infact, I've discussed this sort of stuff with my physics/maths teachers before I applied to uni, and they totally agreed with me). I'm sorry martin, but you're totally wrong with your assumptions.

As for the idea Einstein made mistakes in his mathematical work, so what? How does that act against the idea he was more of a genius than anyone? The idea he made mistakes is due to recklessness. You can be reckless whether you are mentally disabled, or a total genius. No link at all.

There are people I know who are awesome at maths, but make mistakes here there and everywhere. There are some people who are very, very careful and make 0 errors, but really struggle with maths.

Einstein could have been a genius but still make many mistakes (due to the possibility he was dyslexic). I suggest you actually do a little research on this particular issue.

Dyslexia increases the chance you will struggle with numeracy. That's a fact. I've shown you also how it is possible to be a mathematical genius but still be poor at numeracy, just like it appears Einstein was. Most people would rather be a genius, as numeracy is almost totally useless due to modern calculators etc. I now rely totally on my calculator, and refuse to learn the silly methods of working out sums such as long multiplication that you get taught early in your education at school.

Martin, you've made several references to how you think I am being arrogant. To be honest, nobody here is being proud and arrogant other than yourself. I've never showed off. I have never said anything with respect to my own abilities. Look through my posts, the only things I've stated with regard to this is how you display a clear lack of understanding on some of the topics. Nothing arrogant about what I've said. You just don't know your stuff.

Quite frankly, I don't care about what your interpretation of arrogance is, as firstly, I'm not, and secondly, it's a debate. I'll say anything to get my point across, and it doesn't matter.

I know there are far better sources than the ones you mentioned that back what I've said, and the very fact you've displayed a lack of knowledge on the whole issue is enough for me to say I reckon you're totally wrong. Unless you want to respect the views of others, and not just discount them as either arrogance or rubbish, don't debate.

I'm not going to post about this again, as for a few posts now all I've done is repeat myself over and over again. I can't think of any other ways to explain what I'm saying, so I won't bother.