A golden age of general relativity? Some remarks on the history of general relativity

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2203-1MaRDI QIDQ682407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hubert Goenner

Publication date 2 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03319

zbMATH Keywords

golden age of general relativityJean Eisenstaedtlow water mark of general relativityrenaissance of general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

Abstract: In papers on the history of general relativity and in personal remembrances of relativists, keywords like "renaissance" and "golden age" of general relativity have been used. We try to show that the first label rests on a weak empirical basis. The second one, while describing a period of vivid growth in research in general relativity, exaggerates the importance of this particular development.

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