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Nov 16, 2015 · Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn. Marcel Grossmann (left) and Michele...
- Michel Janssen, Jürgen Renn
- 2015
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.
Grossmann introduced Einstein to the absolute differential calculus, started by Elwin Bruno Christoffel and fully developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita. Grossmann facilitated Einstein's unique synthesis of mathematical and theoretical physics in what is still today considered the most elegant and powerful theory of ...
In 1912, Einstein’s friend, mathematician Marcel Grossman, introduced him to the tensor analysis of Bernhard Riemann, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, which allowed him to express the laws of physics in the same way in different coordinate systems.
relations with his close friend Marcel Grossmann. In this Skizze Einstein told the story of his collaboration with Grossman which led to the Einstein-Grossmann theory. I will analyze Einstein's recollections, and while doing so outline Einstein's efforts at searching for a gravitational theory between 1912 and 1914. The line element
During Einstein’s tenure at the ETH, he and Grossmann engaged in an intense and very successful collaboration, in which Einstein’s physics training and Grossmann’s mathematical background came together in a fruitful search for a relativistic theory of gravitation.
Abstract: This article reviews the biography of the Swiss mathematician Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936) and his contributions to the emergence of the general theory of relativity. The first part is his biography, while the second part reviews his collaboration with Einstein in Zurich which resulted in the Einstein-Grossmann theory of 1913.
