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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)
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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
(p.409) Index
(p.409) Index
- Source:
- The Formative Years of Relativity
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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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
