Max von Laue's role in the relativity revolution

DOI10.1007/BF02985380zbMATH Open1200.01024MaRDI QIDQ976305FDOQ976305

Authors: David E. Rowe 

Publication date: 17 June 2010

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

Einsteinian relativityMinkowski's 4-dimensional space-timereception of relativity theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Figures of light in the early history of relativity (1905--1914)
• On the histories of relativity: the propagation and elaboration of relativity theory in participant histories in Germany, 1905--1911.
• Einsteins physical strategy, energy conservation, symmetries, and stability: ``But Grossmann \& I believed that the conservation laws were not satisfied
• Marcel Grossmann. For the love of mathematics. Translated from the German by William D. Brewer
• The mathematicians' happy hunting ground: Einstein's general theory of relativity
• A look back at Hermann Minkowski's Cologne lecture ``Raum und Zeit
• Max von Laue. Intrepid and true: a biography of the Physics Nobel Laureate. Translated from the German by Ann M. Hentschel

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