<p>@hoihoihoi
Now I know for sure that this thread is nonsense. Firstly, you didn’t get my point. I meant that why did a professor select you and other 39 students. And to “set-up equipment”? I don’t even know what that means. Now, learning that much math takes at least an year, and that too only if you are exceptional. Do you even know what calculus of variations is? For that, you would need real analysis as well. Also, special and general relativity are the same no matter which university you go to. Similarly, their prerequisites stay the same. Let’s say I believe you in that you learned the math. You still didn’t complete the physics requirements (Classical Mechanics, electrodynamics, electricity and magnetism, analytical mechanics (Lagrangians and less Hamiltonians) and some Quantum Mechanics). </p>