Title: Einstein and the history of general relativity :
Authors: Howard, Don,; Stachel, John J.,; Boston University.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Birkhäuser,
Physical description: xii, 445 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: What was Einstein's principle of equivalence? / John Norton -- The rigidly rotating disk as the "missing link" in the history of general relativity / John Stachel -- Einstein's search for general covariance, 1912- 1915 / John Stachel -- How Einstein found his field equations, 1912-1915 / John Norton -- Max Abraham and the reception of relativity in Italy / Carlo Cattani and Michelangelo De Maria -- The 1915 epistolary controversy between Einstein and Tullio Levi-Civita / Carlo Cattani and Michelangelo De Maria -- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the ether, and the general theory of relativity / A.J. Kox -- The early interpretation of the Schwarzschild solution / Jean Eisenstaedt -- The early history of the "problem of motion" in general relativity / Peter Havas -- The low water mark of general relativity, 1925-1955 / Jean Eisenstaedt -- The canonical formulation of general-relativistic theories / Peter G. Bergmann -- Einstein, Hilbert, and Weyl / Vladimir P. Vizgin -- Inside the coconut / Michel Biezunski -- The Einstein-de Sitter controversy of 1916-1917 and the rise of relativistic cosmology / Pierre Kerszberg -- The expanding universe / George F.R. Ellis.
Notes: "Organized under the auspices of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies"--Pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Astrophysics--History--Congresses.; General relativity (Physics)--History--Congresses.