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Steven J Nadis

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1) A history in sum: 150 years of mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975)

Author

Nadis, Steven J

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

2) The gravity of math: how geometry rules the universe

Author

Nadis, Steven J

Publisher

Basic Books

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

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"On November 25th, 1915, Albert Einstein published his field equations of general relativity and reinvented gravity. Rather than being some mysterious unseen force pulling objects together, gravity, Einstein told the world, is a manifestation of the curvature of space-time caused by the presence of massive objects. But Einstein's theory wasn't born in a vacuum, not even the vacuum of space. Instead, the theory of general relativity relies upon complicated...