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  2. General relativity priority dispute - Wikipedia

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    In their 1997 Science paper, [B 2] Corry, Renn and Stachel quote the above passage and comment that "the arguments by which Einstein is exculpated are rather weak, turning on his slowness in fully grasping Hilbert's mathematics", and so they attempted to find more definitive evidence of the relationship between the work of Hilbert and Einstein ...

  3. Foundations of geometry - Wikipedia

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    The differences between the two English translations are due not only to Hilbert, but also to differing choices made by the two translators. What follows will be based on the Unger translation. Hilbert's axiom system is constructed with six primitive notions: point, line, plane, betweenness, lies on (containment), and congruence.

  4. Hilbert's axioms - Wikipedia

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    Hilbert's axioms are a set of 20 assumptions proposed by David Hilbert in 1899 in his book ... angles, and triangles may each be defined in terms of points and ...

  5. Mathematics of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    Numerical relativity is the sub-field of general relativity which seeks to solve Einstein's equations through the use of numerical methods. Finite difference, finite element and pseudo-spectral methods are used to approximate the solution to the partial differential equations which arise. Novel techniques developed by numerical relativity ...

  6. Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    The sum of the measures of the angles of any triangle is less than 180° if the geometry is hyperbolic, equal to 180° if the geometry is Euclidean, and greater than 180° if the geometry is elliptic. The defect of a triangle is the numerical value (180° − sum of the measures of the angles of the triangle). This result may also be stated as ...

  7. Einstein–Cartan theory - Wikipedia

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    The differences between Einstein–Cartan theory and general relativity (formulated either in terms of the EinsteinHilbert action on Riemannian geometry or the Palatini action on Riemann–Cartan geometry) rest solely on what happens to the geometry inside matter sources. That is: "torsion does not propagate".

  8. Einstein–Hilbert action - Wikipedia

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    The EinsteinHilbert action in general relativity is the action that yields the Einstein field equations through the stationary-action principle. With the (− + + +) metric signature , the gravitational part of the action is given as [ 1 ]

  9. Twin paradox - Wikipedia

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    Einstein's conclusion of an actual difference in registered clock times (or aging) between reunited parties caused Paul Langevin to posit an actual, albeit experimentally indiscernible, absolute frame of reference: In 1911, Langevin wrote: "A uniform translation in the aether has no experimental sense.