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> 1905 General Theory of Relativity paper

Special relativity. On general relativity he worked from 1907 to 1915.




Yeah. Sorry. Copy pasted badly. The link was right though...

Speaking of which:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_general_relativity#...

Seems he had most of the concept nailed down by 1907 but was struggling with the math. So, he worked the module step-by-step only adding gravity in 1915 after learning about Riemannian manifolds.




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