Hi Rick & Everyone,
Looking at some of Piaget's and Einstein's autobiographical writings
side-by-side, I'm struck with how little Einstein mentions other
people, and even how much rarer it is for Einstein to describe
anecdotes with *anybody* (e.g., Out of My Later Years,
Autobiographical
I second Rick Froman's thanks to Kevin Grobman for the information
about Einstein's links to Jean Piaget, of which I was unaware. But Rick
makes a pertinent point when he notes that the exchanges took place
well after Einstein had produced his relativity theories, the first of
which was in 1905
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Hi Rick...
Jim Matiya
Adjunct Instructor in Psychology
Florida Gulf Coast University
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Thank you, Kevin for that very informative excerpt illuminating the connection
between Piaget and Einstein (and the amusing description of the velocity
study). It is interesting to consider the ways that children think about time,
space, number and causality and how they might be different from
