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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 4: Foundations of Classical Gravity

AGPhil 4.1: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 09:30–10:15, A 060

Einstein Equations and Hilbert Action: David Hilbert’s Contributions to General Relativity — •Tilman Sauer — Universität Bern

I will discuss how Hilbert arrived at General Relativity in late 1915 and give a characterization of his perspective on the natural sciences in general and on the foundations of space and time in particular.