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THE
FORMATIVE
YEARS
OF
RELATIVITY
THE
HISTORY
AND
MEANING
OF
EINSTEIN'S
PRINCETON
LECTURES
HANOCH
GUTFREUND
&
JÜRGEN
RENN
THE
FORMATIVE
YEARS
OF
RELATIVITY
A
cause
for
celebration.
In
September
2015,
gravitational
waves,
generated
by
a
collision
of
two
black
holes,
were
detected
by
the
twin
Laser
Interferometer
Gravitational-wave
Observatory
(LIGO)
detectors,
operated
by
Caltech
and
MIT,
confirming
a
consequence
of
the
general
theory
of
relativity
established
by
Albert
Einstein
100
years
earlier.
Drawing
by
Laurent
Taudin.
THE
FORMATIVE
YEARS
OF
RELATIVITY
THE
HISTORY
AND
MEANING
OF
EINSTEIN'S
PRINCETON
LECTURES
Featuring
Einstein’s
Classic
Text
The
Meaning
of
Relativity
in
Its
Historical
Context
HANOCH
GUTFREUND
AND
JÜRGEN
RENN
PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY
PRESS
PRINCETON
AND
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Jacket
photograph
from
“Professor
Einstein’s
Visit
to
the
United
States,”
The
Scientific
Monthly,
Vol.
12,
No.
5
(May
1921)
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Names:
Gutfreund,
Hanoch,
author.
|
Renn,
Jürgen,
1956-
author.
Title:
The
formative
years
of
general
relativity
:
the
history
and
meaning
of
Einstein’s
Princeton
lectures
/
Hanoch
Gutfreund
and
Jürgen
Renn.
Description:
Princeton
;
Oxford
:
Princeton
University
Press,
[2017]
|
Includes
bibliographical
references
and
index.
Identifiers:
LCCN
2016047532
|
ISBN
9780691174631
(hardcover
;
alk.
paper)
|
ISBN
0691174636
(hardcover
;
alk.
paper)
Subjects:
LCSH:
General
relativity
(Physics)—History—20th
century.
|
Einstein,
Albert,
1879-1955.
Relativitäatstheorie.
English.
Classification:
LCC
QC173.6
.G878
2017
|
DDC
530.11—dc23
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