The expanding worlds of general relativity
By: Hubert Goenner ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Goenner, Hubert.
Series: Einstein studies ;; v. 7
Publisher: Birkauser
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: General relativity (Physics)
Description: Recent years have seen an explosion in the number and quality of works on the history of gravitation and general relativity. This book, based on the Fourth International Conference on the History of General Relativity, welcomes a number of young researchers as well as prominent, established scholars in a collection of important explorations of four themes at the forefront of work in the field.

Historians and philosophers of science as well as working relativists and cosmologists, mathematicians, physicists, and general readers interested in the field will profit from this collection of up-to-date contributions to a fascinating and intriguing topic in the history of science. The volume presents a broad and accurate status report of a most lively and expanding field of historical and philosophical research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.