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

The Formative Years of Relativity : : The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures / / Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn.

First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of relativity. The work would go on to become a monumental classic, printed in numerous editions and translati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Gutfreund, Hanoch,
Renn, Jürgen,
MitwirkendeR:
Buchwald, Diana Kormos,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 66 halftones. 6 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • PART I: PRELIMINARIES
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Einstein’s First Trip to America
  • 3. Structure and Contents of The Meaning of Relativity
  • Part II. The Emerging World of General Relativity
  • 1. Physics and Geometry
  • 2. The Principles of General Relativity
  • 3. The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation
  • 4. Einstein and the Astronomers
  • 5. The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology
  • 6. The Controversy over Gravitational Waves
  • 7. Philosophical Debates on General Relativity
  • 8. The Quest for a Unified Field Theory
  • 9. Early Monographs on Relativity
  • 10. Beyond the Formative Years
  • Part III. Einstein’s Book with the Appendixes
  • 1. Space and Time in Pre- relativity Physics
  • 2. The Theory of Special Relativity
  • 3. The General Theory of Relativity
  • 4. The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
  • 5. Appendix for the Second Edition: On the “Cosmologic Problem”
  • 6. Appendix II (PUP 4th edition, 1953): Generalization of Gravitation Theory
  • 7. Appendix II (PUP 5th edition, 1956): Relativistic Theory of the Non- symmetric Field
  • Part IV. The Popular Lectures
  • 1. Introductory Remarks
  • 2. Einstein’s Lectures
  • Part V. Biographical Notes on the Protagonists of the Formative Years
  • Index

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