- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of 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 - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
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Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity
Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity
- Chapter:
- (p.17) 3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity
- Source:
- The Formative Years of Relativity
- Author(s):
Hanoch Gutfreund
Jürgen Renn
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter discusses the structure and content of Einstein's text, The Meaning of Relativity. It shows the flow of ideas in the order of their presentation and emphasizes the new ways of their formulation, as influenced by Einstein's interaction with his colleagues and by his own rethinking of some of the basic concepts. As in the case of his Relativity—The Special and the General Theory, where throughout the years Einstein added new appendixes to later editions of the book, he also used The Meaning of Relativity as a platform to publish over the course of time, up until the end of his life, his reflections on the major issues on the agenda of debates and efforts during the formative years of general relativity.
Keywords: The Meaning of Relativity, formative years, general relativity, relativity lectures, physics, special relativity, Albert Einstein
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of 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 - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
-
Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
