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How Einstein Found His Field Equations
eBook - Sources and Interpretation, Classic Texts in the Sciences
ISBN/EAN: 9783030979553
Umbreit-Nr.: 6400319
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 362 S., 135.34 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 29.07.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
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- Zusatztext
- <p>Einstein's field equations of gravitation are a core element of his general theory of relativity. In four short communications to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in&nbsp;November 1015, we can follow the final steps toward these equations and the resulting theory's spectacular success in accounting for&nbsp;the anomalous motion of Mercury's perihelion.&nbsp;This source book provides an expert guide to these four groundbreaking papers. Following an introductory essay placing these papers in the context of the development of&nbsp;Einstein's theory, it presents and analyzes, in addition to the four papers of November 1915, a careful selection of (critical excerpts from) papers, letters, and manuscripts&nbsp;documenting the path that early on led Einstein to the field equations of the first November 1915 paper, but then took a turn away from them only to lead back to them in the&nbsp;end.&nbsp;Drawing on extensive research at the Einstein Papers Project and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science,&nbsp;this volume traces the intricate interplay between considerations of physics and&nbsp;considerations of&nbsp;mathematics that guided Einstein along this path. It thus presents a&nbsp;concise yet authoritative account of how Einstein found his field equations, affording readers who are prepared to immerse&nbsp;themselves in these intricacies a unique glimpse of Einstein at work at the height of his creative prowess. Highlights of this journey in Einstein's footsteps include the crucial pages&nbsp;(with detailed annotation) from the Zurich Notebook, the record of Einstein's early search for field equation with his mathematician friend Marcel Grossmann, and the Einstein-Besso manuscript, documenting&nbsp;Einstein's&nbsp;attempts with his friend and confidant Michele Besso to explain the Mercury anomaly on the basis of the equations that he and&nbsp;Grossmann had eventually settled on in the Zurich Notebook.</p><p></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota Tate Laboratory of Physics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</p><p>Jürgen Renn, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany</p>