Jim Ritter

Can love and science really be the same thing? When snack food king Mario Rupert's promotional mission to Mars goes horribly wrong, the science community and Mario's own family seem hardly interested in helping. But then six of the most uncommon individuals and two monkeys band together to attempt the most impossible space rescue mission of all time. Using an almost unknown theory based on common needs creating new outcomes, the debate soon becomes whether the theory is really about how scientific discovery can take place or about how love might be the common denominator for us all. Not without a good fight along the way, the six individuals and two monkeys keep up their pursuit to not only see if they can bring Mario back home but to finally prove once and for all that love and science are the same thing and that the impossible is possible.

A Bridge Over Lights

Jürgen Renn

Hubert Goenner

Tilman Sauer

The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing awareness that a collaboration between working scientists, historians and philosophers of science is, in this field, partic ularly promising for all participants. The expanding activity in this field is well documented by recent volumes in this Einstein Studies series on the History of General Relativity as well as by a series of international conferences on this topic at Osgood Hill (1986), Luminy (1988), and Pittsburgh (1991). The fourth of these conferences, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, was held in Berlin from 31 July to 3 August 1995, with a record attendance of some 80 historians and philosophers of science, physicists, mathematicians, and as tronomers. Based on presentations at the Berlin conference, this volume provides an overview of the present state of research in this field, documenting not only the increasing scope of recent investigations in the history of relativity and gravitation but also the emergence of several key issues that will probably remain at the focus of debate in the near future. RELATIVITY IN THE MAKING The papers of this section deal with the origins and genesis of relativity theory.

The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity

Catherine Goldstein

Jeremy Gray

Une image courante des mathématiques en fait une discipline née en Europe et se répandant ensuite dans le monde entier. L'histoire récente des sciences récuse ce récit simpliste en montrant les formations mathématiques et les interactions en jeu, tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de l'Europe. Synthétisant ces résultats, l'ouvrage va plus loin et cherche à comprendre la raison d'être et les modalités du récit usuel, ainsi que la constitution concrète des mathématiques européennes. De l'Extrême-Orient aux centres fluctuants de l'Europe géographique, de l'Antiquité classique aux nations modernes, la recherche de l'Europe mathématique mène à la réflexion sur les rapports entre sciences et sociétés.

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