The Genesis of General Relativity

The Genesis of General Relativity
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 2072
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ISBN-10 : 9781402040009
ISBN-13 : 1402040008
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Book Synopsis The Genesis of General Relativity by : Jürgen Renn

Download or read book The Genesis of General Relativity written by Jürgen Renn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein’s 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today’s major historians of science. Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.


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