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The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein’s Princeton Lectures

By Jürgen Renn , Hanoch Gutfreund

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0691174636, 9780691174631
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3754197 bytes)
Pages
432\430
Time added
2018-03-25 05:39:57
History & Philosophy;Science & Math;Relativity;Phy

Description

Content: Einstein's first trip to America -- Structure and contents of the meaning of relativity -- Physics and geometry -- The principles of general relativity -- The first solutions and the challenge of their interpretation -- Einstein and astronomers -- The genesis of relativistic cosmology -- The controversy over gravitational waves -- Philosophical debates on general relativity -- The quest for a unified field theory -- Early monographs on relativity -- Beyond the formative years -- Pre-relativity physics -- The theory of special relativity -- The general theory of relativity -- The general theory of relativity (continued)

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