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Nordstrom Gravitation Recast with Fokker

With Adriaan Fokker, reformulates Nordstrom's competing gravitation theory using tensor methods, clarifying how relativistic gravity could be expressed geometrically.

Albert Einstein in a 1912 portrait
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Nordstrom Gravitation Recast with Fokker

1914 · Berlin · United States of America · Physics

With Adriaan Fokker, reformulates Nordstrom's competing gravitation theory using tensor methods, clarifying how relativistic gravity could be expressed geometrically.