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1. The crisis. 2. November the fourth. 3. November the eleventh.



  • CONTENTS XV



      1. The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration



      • (a) From Prague to Zurich

      • (b) From scalar to tensor

      • (c) The collaboration

      • (d) The stumbling block

      • (e) The aftermath





      1. Field theories of gravitation: the first fifty years



      • (a) Einstein in Vienna

      • (b) The Einstein-Fokker paper





      1. The field equations of gravitation



      • (a) From Zurich to Berlin

      • (b) Interlude. Rotation by magnetization

      • (c) The final steps

        • (d). Einstein and Hilbert 4. November the eighteenth. 5. November the twenty-fifth,







      1. The new dynamics



      • (a) From 1915 to

      • (b) The three successes

      • (c) Energy and momentum conservation; the Bianchi identities

      • (d) Gravitational waves

      • (e) Cosmology.

      • (0 Singularities; the problem of motion

      • (g) What else was new at GR9?





      1. 'The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein ' V THE LATER JOURNEY

        • (a) Illness. Remarriage. Death of Mother

        • (b) Einstein canonized

        • (c) The birth of the legend





      • (d) Einstein and Germany

      • (e) The later writings





      1. Unified Field Theory 1. The man of culture. 2. The man of science.

        • (a) Particles and fields around

        • (b) Another decade of gestation







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