Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Ph

Zusammenfassung Cambridge graduate Roy Kerr solved the mathematical code - represented by six interlocking equations - of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1963. This title offers an account of the events leading up to Kerr's great discovery. It reveals the history behind the search for the real world solution to Einstein's field equations.

Product details

• Authors: Roy Kerr, Fulvio Melia, Fulvio (Univ. of Arizona) Melia, Melia Fulvio
• Assisted by: Kerr Roy (Afterword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2010
• EAN: 9780226519517
• ISBN: 978-0-226-51951-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, History of Science, Relativity physics