The Universe of General Relativity
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4380-5 (ISBN)
Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies.- Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation.- Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory.- Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy.- A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913.- Einstein and the Principle of General Relativity, 1916–1921.- Einstein and the Problem of Motion: A Small Clue.- A Note on General Relativity, Energy Conservation, and Noether’s Theorems.- Weyl vs. Reichenbach on Lichtgeometrie.- Dingle and de Sitter Against the Metaphysicians, or Two Ways to Keep Modern Cosmology Physical.- George Gamow and the ‘Factual Approach’ to Relativistic Cosmology.- George McVittie, The Uncompromising Empiricist.- False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation.- Hilbert’s “World Equations” and His Vision of a Unified Science.- Einstein, Kaluza, and the Fifth Dimension.- Unified Field Theory: Early History and Interplay Between Mathematics and Physics.- Is Quantum Gravity Necessary?.- Einstein in the Daily Press: A Glimpse into the Gehrcke Papers.- Syracuse: 1949–1952.- A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951–1961.
Reihe/Serie | Einstein Studies ; 11 |
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Zusatzinfo | 17 Illustrations, black and white; X, 383 p. 17 illus. |
Verlagsort | Secaucus |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8176-4380-X / 081764380X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8176-4380-5 / 9780817643805 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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