Einstein and Hilbert: The Creation of General Relativity
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⚛️ physics.hist-ph
gr-qc
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einsteingeneralgreatesthilbertrelativityannouncedarticlebasic
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It took eight years after Einstein announced the basic physical ideas behind the relativistic gravity theory before the proper mathematical formulation of general relativity was mastered. The efforts of the greatest physicist and of the greatest mathematician of the time were involved and reached a breathtaking concentration during the last month of the work. Recent controversy, raised by a much publicized 1997 reading of Hilbert's proof-sheets of his article of November 1915, is also discussed.
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