It seems the young Albert Einstein was never exactly an ordinary child. When he was given a c  at the age of five, it ignited his i . Not only was the young Albert passionately c  , he was also remarkably p  and would not easily give up on a problem. Albert’s development was also s   by the company of intelligent adults such as an uncle of his who was an engineer and a medical student who was a friend of the family. Einstein was i  to take up mathematics by Euclidean geometry. His true g  lay in his ability to express c  ideas in simple language. By the age of twenty-six Einstein had already produced his most famous work, although he never stopped looking for answers.