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Nordstrom Gravitation Recast with Fokker

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1914

Albert Einstein1914

Berlin · Science / Physics

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

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Albert Einstein

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