Volume offers a selection of the best contributions by Russian scholars to the Einstein Studies industry. Contributors draw extensively on documentation previously unavailable and explore the historical and foundational issues in general relativity and relativistic cosmology. Historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science will find much new and unexpected material presenting the best of recent Russian scholarship in the field. Also very accessible to the general reader.

Inhalt
Einstein and Friedmann.- The Problem of Conservation Laws and the Poincaré Quasigroup in General Relativity.- The Role Played by Mach's Ideas in the Genesis of the General Theory of Relativity.- Hermann Weyl and Large Numbers in Relativistic Cosmology.- Laws of Physics and the Universe.- Vsevolod Frederiks, Pioneer of Relativism and Liquid Crystal Physics.- Einstein's Fluctuation Formula and the WaveParticle Duality.- Dirac's Quantum Electrodynamics.- Einstein's Zurich Colloquium.- What May Happen to a Man Who Thinks a Great Deal but Reads Very Little.