High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ewald received his early education in the classics at the Gymnasium in Berlin and Potsdam, where he learned to speak Greek, French, and English, in addition to his native language of German.Ewald began his higher education in physics, chemistry, and mathematics at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, during the winter of 1905. Then in 1906 and 1907 he continued his formal education at the University of Göttingen, where his interests turned primarily to mathematics. At that time, Göttingen was a world-class center of mathematics under the three Mandarins of Göttingen: Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. While studying at Göttingen, Ewald was taken on by Hilbert as an Ausarbeiter, a paid position as a scribe, i.e., he would take notes in Hilbert's classes, have the notes approved by Hilbert's assistant at that time Ernst Hellinger and then prepare a clean copy for the Lesezimmer the mathematics reading room.