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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered…

Quote byAlbert Einstein · 1879–1955

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Response to being shown a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" column with the headline "Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics" (1935). Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 16.

English (original)

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

— Albert Einstein

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