10 Historical Lies You Totally Fell For

Albert Einstein's intellectual prowess is known in all corners of the globe. The German-born physicist is hailed as one of the greatest scientific minds the world has ever seen, with his revolutionary Theory of Relativity underpinning our understanding of gravity and how it occurs.

The battle-cry of many underachieving school pupils has forever been the belief that Einstein failed his mathematics class, hinting that the study of numbers is not nearly as important as they're teachers lead them to believe.

This is, in fact, a lie.

Einstein has been extensively documented as a somewhat troublesome student, struggling to get to grips with reading, writing and socially interacting, even himself admitting his outcast status as a schoolboy. This aside, historians believe there was nothing particularly extra-ordinary about his schooling at all, with the exception of an invested interest in the sciences. His mathematical understanding was certainly on par with the rest of the class at the very least.

Einstein's path towards physics was surely written in the stars, as his brilliance in the subject was plain to see. With maths undeniably being an essential component of many scientific theories, his understanding of numbers was surely enough to get by.