Editor's note: ''On the curvature of space'' by A. Friedman and ''On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space'' by A. Friedmann (Q1972115)

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Editor's note: ''On the curvature of space'' by A. Friedman and ''On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space'' by A. Friedmann
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    Editor's note: ''On the curvature of space'' by A. Friedman and ''On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space'' by A. Friedmann (English)
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    29 May 2000
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    Introductory remarks to the two papers of \textit{A. Friedmann} (A. A. Fridman) reprinted in this issue. For reviews of the originals [Z. Phys. 10, 377-386 (1922) and ibid. 21, 326-332 (1924) see JFM 48.1031.02 and JFM 50.0577.01]. Russian translations of these papers were published in Usp. Fiz. Nauk 80, No. 3, p. 439 and 447 (1963), along with Russian translations of the two notes by \textit{A. Einstein} [see Z. Phys. 11, 326 (1922; JFM 48.1031.03) and ibid. 16, 228 (1923; JFM 49.0652.01)], Friedmann's biography and essays on Friedmann's work by V. A. Fok, Ya. B. Zel'dovich, E. M. Lifshitz and I. M. Khalatnikov. A Russian translation of the first paper by Friedmann was also published in 1924 in the J. Russ. Phys. Chem. Soc. (Zh. Russ. Fiz. Chim. Obsh.).
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    metrics of spatially homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes
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