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The road to relativity : the history and meaning of Einstein's "The foundation of general relativity" featuring the original manuscript of Einstein's masterpiece / Hanoch Gutfreund & Jürgen Renn.
LIBRA QC173.6 .G88 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutfreund, Hanoch, 1935- author.
- Renn, Jürgen, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- General relativity (Physics)--History--20th century.
- General relativity (Physics).
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie--English.
- Einstein, Albert.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- The charm of a manuscript
- Einstein's intellectual odyssey to general relativity
- The annotated manuscript
- Bibliographical notes to the annotation pages
- Postscript: the drama continues
- A chronology of the genesis of general relativity and its formative years
- Physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers relevant to Einstein's thinking
- Recommended reading
- English translation of Einstein's paper.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691162539
- 0691162530
- OCLC:
- 902852854
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