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Leo Corry,
The Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University:
Einstein, Hilbert and the Tortuous Way to General Relativity
On November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein presented to the Berlin Academy of
Sciences the explicit, complete and correct, generally-covariant field
equations of gravitation, lying at the heart of his General Theory of
Relativity. Five days earlier, on November 20, David Hilbert presented in
Göttingen his own version of the equations that, in the published version
that appeared in print several months later, contained the correct and
explicit equations of the theory. According to a view that was commonly
accepted for many years, Hilbert had anticipated Einstein in five days in
correctly formulating this important part of the latter's work. Recent
research, however, has shown that this was not really the case, and the
actual historical situation was much more complex. This talk addresses
several historical questions related with this important scientific
milestone, and presents some of the answers that recent research has brought
to light.
tirsdag, den 8. september 2009, kl.
17.00
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