The formative years of relativity
Subtitle: the history and meaning of Einstein's Princeton lectures
By: Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn
Contributors: Renn, Jürgen, 1956- author
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780691174631
Subjects: General relativity (Physics); History
Notes: "Featuring Einstein's Classic Text, The Meaning of Relativity, in its Historical Context" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Einstein's first trip to America; title: Structure and contents of the meaning of relativity; title: Physics and geometry; title: The principles of general relativity; title: The first solutions and the challenge of their interpretation; title: Einstein and astronomers; title: The genesis of relativistic cosmology; title: The controversy over gravitational waves; title: Philosophical debates on general relativity; title: The quest for a unified field theory; title: Early monographs on relativity; title: Beyond the formative years; title: Space and time in pre-relativity physics; title: The theory of special relativity; title: The general theory of relativity; title: The general theory of relativity (continued).