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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Figures of Light in the Early History of Relativity.  (pages 3-50)Scott A. Walter
The Behaviour of Rods and Clocks in General Relativity and the Meaning of the Metric Field.  (pages 51-66)Harvey Brown & D. E. Rowe
Hilbert on General Covariance and Causality.  (pages 67-77)Katherine Brading & Thomas Ryckman
Putting General Relativity to the Test: Twentieth-Century Highlights and Twenty-First-Century Prospects.  (pages 81-96)Clifford M. Will
Rotating Hollow and Full Spheres: Einstein, Thirring, Lense, and Beyond.  (pages 97-110)Herbert Pfister
Relativistic Lighthouses: The Role of the Binary Pulsar in Proving the Existence of Gravitational Waves.  (pages 111-136)Daniel Kennefick
The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force.  (pages 137-179)Allan Franklin
Cyclic Models of the Relativistic Universe: The Early History.  (pages 183-204)Helge Kragh
Inflation and the Origins of Structure.  (pages 205-241)Chris Smeenk
Problems with Modified Theories of Gravity, as Alternatives to Dark Energy.  (pages 243-259)Norbert Straumann
The Unexpected Resurgence of Weyl Geometry in late 20th-Century Physics.  (pages 261-360)Erhard Scholz
Matter from Space.  (pages 363-399)Domenico Giulini
The Surprising Resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture.  (pages 401-415)Donal O’Shea
Unified Field Theory up to the 1960s: Its Development and Some Interactions Among Research Groups.  (pages 417-435)Hubert Goenner
The Formulation of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime.  (pages 439-449)Robert M. Wald
Conformal Infinity – Development and Applications.  (pages 451-473)Jörg Frauendiener
String Theory and Spacetime Geometry.  (pages 475-490)Matthias R. Gaberdiel

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