How Einstein found his field equations: sources and interpretation

by Janssen, Michel

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Full title :How Einstein found his field equations : sources and interpretation / Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.

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Publication Date:©2022

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Publisher(s):Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

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Description:1 online resource (364 pages).

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ISBN:9783030979553, 3030979555
oclc:on1341448544
LC Classification:QC6
Dewey Decimal:530.01

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Essay: How Einstein Found His Field Equations -- Chapter 1 Overview of the contents of this volume -- Chapter 2 From the Entwurf field equations to the Einstein field equations: a first pass -- 2.1 "With a heavy heart'' -- 2.2 "Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before'' -- 2.3 "Nostrified'' -- Chapter 3 The Zurich Notebook: How Einstein found the Entwurf field equations -- 3.1 The mathematical strategy -- 3.2 The physical strategy -- Chapter 4 Consolidating the Entwurf Theory -- 4.1 The hole argument -- 4.2 A variational formalism for the Entwurf field equations -- 4.3 The Entwurf theory, the Nordström theory, and Hilbert's theory -- Chapter 5 The Entwurf field Equations as the scaffold for the Einstein field equations -- 5.1 The "fateful prejudice'' and the "key to the solution'' -- 5.2 Untying the knot -- 5.3 Physics, mathematics or both? -- 5.4 Finishing touches -- 5.5 Scaffold and arch -- Chapter 6 Mercury's perihelion: From 18'' in the Entwurf theory to 43'' in general relativity -- Chapter 7 Beyond the search for field equations -- 7.1 Cosmology as a continuation of the mathematical strategy -- 7.2 Gravitational waves as a c…