Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century

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New York, USA: Springer New York (2018)
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Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology explores the rich interplay between mathematical and physical ideas by studying the interactions of major actors and the roles of important research communities over the course of the last century.

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9781493977062   1493992635   1493977067

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10.1007/978-1-4939-7708-6
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Hilbert on General Covariance and Causality.Katherine Brading & Thomas Ryckman
The Behaviour of Rods and Clocks in General Relativity and the Meaning of the Metric Field.Harvey Brown & D. E. Rowe
Conformal Infinity – Development and Applications.Jörg Frauendiener
The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force.Allan Franklin
String Theory and Spacetime Geometry.Matthias R. Gaberdiel
Matter from Space.Domenico Giulini
Unified Field Theory up to the 1960s: Its Development and Some Interactions Among Research Groups.Hubert Goenner
Relativistic Lighthouses: The Role of the Binary Pulsar in Proving the Existence of Gravitational Waves.Daniel Kennefick
Cyclic Models of the Relativistic Universe: The Early History.Helge Kragh
The Surprising Resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture.Donal O’Shea
Rotating Hollow and Full Spheres: Einstein, Thirring, Lense, and Beyond.Herbert Pfister
The Unexpected Resurgence of Weyl Geometry in late 20th-Century Physics.Erhard Scholz
Inflation and the Origins of Structure.Chris Smeenk
Problems with Modified Theories of Gravity, as Alternatives to Dark Energy.Norbert Straumann
Figures of Light in the Early History of Relativity.Scott A. Walter
The Formulation of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime.Robert M. Wald
Putting General Relativity to the Test: Twentieth-Century Highlights and Twenty-First-Century Prospects.Clifford M. Will

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David E. Rowe
Deakin University
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