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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gutfreund, Hanoch (1935-....)
Titre(s) : The formative years of relativity [Texte imprimé] : the history and meaning of Einstein's Princeton lectures : featuring Einstein's classic text The meaning of relativity in its historical context / Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn
Publication : Princeton : Princeton university press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-415 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Notes biliogr.
First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein's
The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and
controversial theory of relativity. The work would go on to become a monumental classic,
printed in numerous editions and translations worldwide. Now, The Formative Years
of Relativity introduces Einstein's masterpiece to new audiences. This beautiful volume
contains Einstein's insightful text, accompanied by important historical materials
and commentary looking at the origins and development of general relativity. Hanoch
Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn provide fresh, original perspectives, placing Einstein's
achievements into a broader context for all readers. In this book, Gutfreund and Renn
tell the rich story behind the early reception, spread, and consequences of Einstein's
ideas during the formative years of general relativity in the late 1910s and 1920s.
They show that relativity's meaning changed radically throughout the nascent years
of its development, and they describe in detail the transformation of Einstein's work
from the esoteric pursuit of one individual communicating with a handful of colleagues
into the preoccupation of a growing community of physicists, astronomers, mathematicians,
and philosophers. This handsome edition quotes extensively from Einstein's correspondence
and reproduces historical documents such as newspaper articles and letters
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Renn, Jürgen (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). La théorie de la relativité restreinte et générale
Relativité (physique) -- 20e siècle
Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
530.11 (23e éd.) = Théorie de la relativité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691174631. - ISBN 0691174636 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455994303
Notice n° :
FRBNF45599430
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / Diana Kormos Buchwald ; Preface ; Part I. Preliminaries. Introduction
; Einstein's first trip to America ; Structure and contents of The meaning of relativity
; Part II. The emerging world of general relativity. Physics and geometry ; The principles
of general relativity ; The first solutions and the challenge of their interpretation
; Einstein and the astronomers ; The genesis of relativistic cosmology ; The controversy
over gravitational waves ; Philosophical debates on general relativity ; The quest
for a unified field theory ; Early monographs on relativity ; Beyond the formative
years ; Part III. Einstein's book with the appendixes. 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 :
on the "cosmologic problem" ; Appendix II (PUP 4th edition, 1953) : generalization
of gravitation theory ; Appendix II (PUP 5th edition, 1956) : relativistic theory
of the non-symmetric field ; Part IV. The popular lectures. Introductory remarks
; Einstein's lectures ; Part V. Biographical notes on the protagonists of the formative
years.
