Did Faraday Know Math?

However we must note that Faraday was in no sense a mathematician and almost all his biographers describe him as "mathematically illiterate". He never learnt any mathematics and his contributions to electricity were purely that of an experimentalist.

How did Faraday learn?

When he was an apprentice bookbinder, he was offered a ticket to attend chemical lectures by Humphry Davy. The lectures inspired Faraday to become a scientist. He eventually became Davy's laboratory assistant, enabling him to learn chemistry from one of the greatest practitioners of the day.

What famous scientist was bad at math?

Thomas Edison: 1847-1931

Edison once said, “I can always hire a mathematician, but they can't hire me.” After studying Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ('Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'), he was left with nothing but a “distaste for mathematics” as a boy.