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contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

TIL The geometric foundational work for Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915 was laid by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann some 60 years earlier

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TIL The geometric foundational work for Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915 was laid by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann some 60 years earlier

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1854: Riemann’s classic lecture on curved space
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    No clue how true it was, but there’s a bit of a joke in physics that Einstein was really bad at the maths of general relativity. His incredible insight was that gravity is geometric, rather than the actual mathematical framework.

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