Events Tagged: "relativity"

Bernhard Riemann develops foundations of differential geometry for curved spaces

Hermann Minkowski reformulates Einstein's relativity using four-dimensional spacetime geometry - 'Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows' - Mathematical geometry becomes fundamental to physics

Einstein publishes General Theory of Relativity using Riemannian geometry - 'God does not play dice with the universe'

Arthur Eddington confirms Einstein's relativity during solar eclipse - Proves abstract mathematical geometry describes physical reality