General relativity at Syracuse in the mid-fifties

DOI10.1007/S10714-011-1249-8MaRDI QIDQ657744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Allen I. Janis

Publication date 10 January 2012

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-011-1249-8

zbMATH Keywords

commutatorsobservables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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• The socio-epistemic networks of general relativity, 1925--1970
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