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Sauer, Tilman | |||||||
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University of Mainz - Staudinger Weg 9 - Mainz - - Germany | |||||||
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HR1 |
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The Collaboration Between Marcel Grossmann and Albert Einstein as a Case of the Applicability of Mathematics | |||||
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Abstract |
Albert Einstein and Marcel Grossmann collaborated in their search for a relativistic theory of gravitation in the years 1912--1914. Famously, Grossmann introduced Einstein to the tools of tensor calculus but the two friends did not succeed in finding the correct gravitational field equations. The episode has been discussed extensively in the historical literature. We briefly review the recently proposed dynamical inferential conception of the application of mathematics in order to analyze Marcel Grossmann's contribution to the emergence of general relativity. |
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