second grade. Albert was pretty shy being the only Jew in a large class of about seventy students. .
He got picked on and teased and was often "referred to as a bore."" It was around this time .
that Albert's uncle, Jacob, began teaching him algebra in his spare time. Jacob kept his attention .
by making up games which involved math. Albert was nine and a half years old when he entered the .
Luitpold Gymnasium on October 1, 1888. When Albert was eleven, a man named Max Talmud .
walked into his life. Talmund was a student at the University of Munich, and he was very .
impressed by Albert's knowledge. Talmund soon began spending hours with him "discussing math .
and science, and later philosophy."" By the time Albert turned thirteen, he was already studying .
calculus. He began advancing so fast in math, it became hard for Talmud to keep up with him. .
Unfortunately, in April 1893, Hermann and Jacob Einstein lost an important contract which cost .
them their business. They decided to move to Milan, Italy, where there was a "prospect of setting .
up a hydroelectric plant."" However, Albert was shocked when he found out his parents were .
making him stay to finish the gymnasium. .
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During the summer of 1893, Albert said goodbye to their family as they left for Milan. .
Albert was close to his family, and finding it hard to be alone, he grew depressed. On December 29, .
1894, he went to the Munich railroad station and bought a ticket to Milan to surprise his parents and .
stay for good . His parents were very shocked to see Albert, but they allowed him to stay in Italy to .
finish gymnasium. Once he was finished with gymnasium, he moved to Zurich to attend the Institute .
of Technology in Zurich. Here Albert began taking mathematic courses and later moved on to .
taking physics. .
"In 1905 Albert received his doctorate from the University of Zurich for a theoretical .
dissertation on the dimensions of molecules,"" and he also published three theoretical papers .