they really helped! I don’t feel so bad anymore.

Thanks for the heads-up. My bad. Of course Einstein didn’t suck at math. He didn’t love school math, though, which is evidenced by the Wickipedia article you cite, where it can be found that:

“In his early teens, Albert attended the new and progressive Luitpold Gymnasium. His father intended for him to pursue electrical engineering, but Albert clashed with authorities and resented the school regimen. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning.”

That pretty well sums up my point, which is that school math and math usually have nothing of relevance to do with each other.

I could not find the documentation for the following quote, but it is often attributed to Einstein:

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

Here’s another thing that may bug you about what people sort of say about Einstein) I know it bugs me):
Any product, consumer item, “philosophy”, etc. that uses Einstein to sell itself, without Einstein specific endorsement should be viewed with extreme suspicion. That goes for DaVinci, Mozart, Jesus et.al. (Think of that despicable ad for “Scientology” that features a big picture of Einstein.)

Mea culpa, though, that I inadvertently may have spread the false rumor that Einstein sucked at math at any age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E....._schooling
http://www.jimloy.com/physics/einstein.htm

You wont find many high school graduates nor college graduates (excepting most math, physics, and engineering graduates), that are able to read Euclid’s Elements, which Einstein mastered well before reaching that kind of age. It is true that he needed help from people such as Grossman, while working on his General Theory of Relativity, but that’s a whole different ball park.