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THE FIELD EQUATIONS OF GRAVITATION 259 credited Amalie Emmy Noether (who was in Goettingen in 1915) with the proof of the theore ...

260 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY November 15: E. to H. 'The indications on your postcards lead to the greatest expectations.' ...

THE FIELD EQUATIONS OF GRAVITATION 26l ing me. It is really a shame if two real fellows who have freed themselves to some extent ...

262 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY E7a. , letter to C. Seelig, May 5, 1952. E8. —, letter to P. Ehrenfest, April 10, 1914. E9. , ...

THE FIELD EQUATIONS OF GRAVITATION 263 E50. , [E48], p. 831. E51. , PAW, 1916, p. 768, footnote 1. E52. , letter to M. Besso, De ...

264 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY LI. A. Lande, Z. Phys. 7, 398 (1921). L2. U. J. J. Le Verrier, C. R. Ac. Sci. Paris 49, 379 ( ...

THE FIELD EQUATIONS OF GRAVITATION 265 W9. H. Weyl, Space, Time and Matter, Sec. 28. Dover, New York, 1961. W10. W, Chap. 12. Wl ...

!5 The New Dynamics 15a. From 1915 to 1980 Einstein arrived at the special theory of relativity after thinking for ten years abo ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 267 standing of general relativity has vastly improved, our faith in the theory has grown, and no assured limit ...

268 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY In preparation for the subsequent short sections which deal more directly with Einstein's wor ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 269 tinued. There was also further research on the problem of motion (which had interested Einstein since 1927) ...

270 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY exclusively devoted to relativity theory and gravitation.* The first international conference ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 271 ulus for the vastly increased activity and the new directions in general relativity. The few dozen practiti ...

272 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY also thoroughly indigestible.' Shortly afterward, Lorentz once again wrote to Ehrenfest. 'I h ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 273 alence principle [S6]. In another modern review, the current situation is sum- marized as follows: So far [ ...

274 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY knew already that one may obtain two pointlike images of the far star if the align- ment is i ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 275 physics of Einstein's relativity principle' [H6].) As for Einstein, in 1914 [E13] and again on November 4, ...

276 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY Ricci in 1889, and then, again independently, in 1902 by Klein's former pupil Luigi Bianchi.* ...

THE NEW DYNAMICS 277 well known, this is not a trivial problem. Equation 15.3 can equivalently be writ- ten in the form The seco ...

278 RELATIVITY, THE GENERAL THEORY The discovery of Eq. 15.9 marks the beginning of a new chapter in general relativity. New pro ...