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The universe of general relativity

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies
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    Chapter 2 Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation
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    Chapter 3 Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory
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    Chapter 4 Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy
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    Chapter 5 A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913
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    Chapter 6 Einstein and the Principle of General Relativity, 1916–1921
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    Chapter 7 Einstein and the Problem of Motion: A Small Clue
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    Chapter 8 A Note on General Relativity, Energy Conservation, and Noether’s Theorems
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    Chapter 9 Weyl vs. Reichenbach on Lichtgeometrie
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    Chapter 10 Dingle and de Sitter Against the Metaphysicians, or Two Ways to Keep Modern Cosmology Physical
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    Chapter 11 George Gamow and the ‘Factual Approach’ to Relativistic Cosmology
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    Chapter 12 George McVittie, The Uncompromising Empiricist
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    Chapter 13 False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation
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    Chapter 14 Hilbert’s “World Equations” and His Vision of a Unified Science
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    Chapter 15 Einstein, Kaluza, and the Fifth Dimension
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    Chapter 16 Unified Field Theory: Early History and Interplay Between Mathematics and Physics
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    Chapter 17 Is Quantum Gravity Necessary?
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    Chapter 18 Einstein in the Daily Press: A Glimpse into the Gehrcke Papers
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    Chapter 19 Syracuse: 1949–1952
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    Chapter 20 A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951–1961
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Chapter title
Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy
Chapter number 4
Book title
The Universe of General Relativity
Published in
ADS, January 2005
DOI 10.1007/0-8176-4454-7_4
Book ISBNs
978-0-8176-4380-5, 978-0-8176-4454-3
Authors

Jürgen Renn

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Unknown 2 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 1 50%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 1 50%
Physics and Astronomy 1 50%