Eight essays trace seminal ideas about the foundations of geometry that led to the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity. This is the only English-language collection of these important papers, some of which are extremely hard to find. Contributors include Helmholtz, Klein, Clifford, Poincaré, and Cartan.
| ISBN: | 9780486453507 |
| Publication date: | 26th January 2007 |
| Author: | Peter Pesic |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 209 pages |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Differential and Riemannian geometry |