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Description edit
Recent years haveseen an explosion in the number and quality of works on the history of gravitation and general relativity. This book, based on the 4th International Conference on the History of General Relativity, welcomes a number of young researchers as well as prominent, established... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Albert Einstein: Add a description of this character.
- Milne
- Bondi
- Seeliger
- Mccrea
- Weyl
- Eddington
- Minkowski
- Schlick
- Dingle
- Poincare
- Mach
- Neumann
- Hoyle
- Tolman
- Sommerfeld
- Freundlich
- Bottlinger
- Kretschmann
- Annalen Der Physik
- Naumann
- Birkhauser
- Raychaudhuri
- Hilbert
- Norton
- Kottler
- Frank
- Robertson
- Ricci
- R. Schulmann
- Infeld
- Kelvin
- Penrose
- Teubner
- J. Renn
- A. J. Kox
- Whittaker
- Schrodinger
- Silberstein
- Newcomb
- Dirac
- Komar
- De Sitter
- M. J. Klein
- Lemaitre
- Hermann
- Lorentz
- Shepley
- Russell
Setting & Locations edit
- Berlin
- Vienna
- Leipzig
- Cambridge
- London
- New York
- Moon
- Gottingen
- Germany
- Prague
- Austria
- Lodge
- Paris
- Cologne
- Castelnuovo
- Born
- Earman
- Ehrenfest
- Zurich Notebook
- Besso
- Riemann
- Braunschweig
- Bentley
- Princeton
- Amsterdam
- Israel
- Munich
- Bern
- Damour
- Schlomka
- Bonnor
- Warsaw
- Majorana
- Austin
- Urania
- Graz
- Eisenstaedt
- Grundgleichungen
- Methuen
- Great Britain
- Philadelphia
- Cracow
- Scientia
- Earth
- Europe
- Boltzmann
- Hungary
First Sentence edit
THE RECEIVED HISTORICAL VIEW OF GENERAL RELATIVITY tells US that, at the end of the nineteenth century, physicists accepted Newton's law of gravitation: there is an attractive force between any pair of bodies in the world, and this force depends only on the masses of those bodies and on their mutual distance.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Birkhauser
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0817640606
Page Count: 512
Publisher: Birkhauser
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0817640606
Page Count: 512
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 530.11
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Mathematics › Pure Mathematics › Algebra
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Mathematics › Applied › Differential Equations
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Physics › Relativity
- Books › Science › Mathematics › Pure Mathematics › Algebra
- Books › Science › Mathematics › Applied › Differential Equations
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy › History of Science
- Books › Science › Physics › Relativity
- Books › Medicine
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