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1. General relativity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/General_relativity/

   18 Jan 2024: J. Theoret. Phys. 23 (6) (1984), 535-566. D Howard, Einstein and Eindeutigkeit : a neglected theme in the philosophical background to general relativity, in Studies in the history of general relativity ... A Lichnerowicz, Mathematics and general

2. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Einstein/

   25 Mar 2024: G Berg, On the origin of the concept of an Einstein space, in Studies in the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1992), 336-343; 460. ... D Howard, Einstein and Eindeutigkeit : a neglected theme in the philosophical background to general relativity

3. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (1898 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fock/

   7 Mar 2023: G E Gorelik, Vladimir Fock: philosophy of gravity and gravity of philosophy, in The attraction of gravitation: new studies in the history of general relativity, Johnstown, PA, 1991 (Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, ... 298. A B Kozhevnikov, V A Fok and the

4. Cosmology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Cosmology/

   7 Mar 2023: G F R Ellis, The expanding universe : a history of cosmology from 1917 to 1960, in Einstein and the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1989), 367-431. ... H Urbantke, Schrödinger and cosmology, in Studies in the history of general relativity

5. Myron Mathisson (1897 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mathisson/

   7 Mar 2023: Died. 13 September 1940. Cambridge, England. Summary. Myron Mathisson was a Polish theoretical physicist who is known for his work in general relativity. . ... 18 004, 1-14. B Sredniawa, Myron Mathisson's and Jan Weyssenhoff's work on the problem of

6. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chandrasekhar/

   23 Nov 2023: He said that:-. one of the ways in which one may explore the physical content of the general theory of relativity is to allow one's sensibility to its aesthetic base ... K C Wali, S Chandrasekhar's contributions to general relativity, in The attraction

7. Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: Einstein presented his general relativity with ten field equations that describe the impact of gravity in a curved space-time. ... J Eisenstaedt, The Early Interpretation of the Schwarzschild Solution, in D Howard and J Stachel (eds), Einstein and the

8. Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lemaitre/

   23 Nov 2023: H P Robertson writes:-. The paper opens with a rapid expository review of the general relativity theory of gravitation, including discussion of kinematics, conservation laws, spherical symmetry, and the solutions of ... Roy. Belg. Cl. Sci. Mém. Collect.

9. Tullio Levi-Civita (1873 - 1941) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Levi-Civita/

   25 Aug 2023: n. n. n-body problem in the general theory of relativity was prepared about ten years ago, but its appearance now is none the less timely for those who have worried ... R. Acad. Sci. Paris 215 (1942), 233-235. C Cattani, Levi-Civita's influence on

10. Heinrich Hertz (1857 - 1894) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hertz_Heinrich/

    4 Jan 2024: side, his enjoyment of the mathematics he had learnt as part of his engineering studies. ... Einstein, Hertz, and the Göttingen answer to the hole argument, in The attraction of gravitation: new studies in the history of general relativity, Johnstown, PA