People have known, even from that day, that Einstein's triumph was an emotional one. He did what Poincare and Lorentz were unwilling to do: he applied their work without reference to the Ether, and without retaining corrections to eliminate true global Relativity (for Poincare and Lorentz, relativity was still a "trick" of the math that should be eventually corrected for, so they used the principle, but stopped short of saying that it was physically valid. They continue giving metrics in fundamentally classic form). Einstein developed very little new math (there was obviously some). But his work was truly unique. His sin was not that he stole *Relativity* - an idea we uniquely championed. His crime was not crediting the mathematicians whose tools he used. Even at the time, this upset people. His papers were unusual. Everyone knew they didn't provide the credit they should have. That makes him an asshole, not a fraud.