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Einstein’s gravitational field equations and the bianchi identities

David E. Rowe

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GravitationPhysicssymbols.namesakeHistory and Philosophy of ScienceGravitational fieldGeneral MathematicssymbolsHEROCovariant transformationEinsteinMathematical physics

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In his highly acclaimed biography of Einstein, Abraham Pais gave a fairly detailed analysis of the many difficulties his hero had to overcome in November 1915 before he finally arrived at generally covariant equations for gravitation (Pais 1982, 250–261).

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03025325