Alberto B. Martínez

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches and researches the history of science and mathematics. His work often focuses on Einstein, relativity, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and the way historical myths take shape and spread.

He has written several books that revisit familiar scientific stories and test them against the historical record, including Science Secrets, Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity, The Cult of Pythagoras, and Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition. A common thread in his writing is a curiosity about how simple legends can replace messier, more interesting truths.

His style is especially appealing for curious listeners because it combines scholarship with a strong sense of narrative. Rather than treating science history as a list of dates and discoveries, he shows it as a human story shaped by arguments, misunderstandings, and surprising twists.