Mesh and measure in early general relativity

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.07.001MaRDI QIDQ905658zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olivier Darrigol

Publication date 27 January 2016

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

measurementgeneral relativitycoordinatesHermann WeylArthur EddingtonMax von Laue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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