The Formative Years of Relativity

Foreword
Diana Kormos Buchwald ix
Preface xiii
I Preliminaries 1
1 Introduction 3
2 Einstein's First Trip to America 11
3 Structure and Contents of The Meaning of Relativity 17
II The Emerging World of General Relativity 23
1 Physics and Geometry 25
2 The Principles of General Relativity 34
3 The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation 46
4 Einstein and the Astronomers 52
5 The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology 69
6 The Controversy over Gravitational Waves 94
7 Philosophical Debates on General Relativity 106
8 The Quest for a Unified Field Theory 122
9 Early Monographs on Relativity 140
10 Beyond the Formative Years 155
III Einstein's Book with the Appendixes 159
1 Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics 161
2 The Theory of Special Relativity 184
3 The General Theory of Relativity 215
4 The General Theory of Relativity (Continued) 239
5 Appendix for the Second Edition: On the "Cosmologic Problem" 269
6 Appendix II (PUP 4th edition, 1953): Generalization of Gravitation Theory 293
7 Appendix II (PUP 5th edition, 1956): Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field 326
IV The Popular Lectures 361
1 Introductory Remarks 363
2 Einstein's Lectures 366
V Biographical Notes on the Protagonists of the Formative Years 387
Index 409