Abstract
With his work on the general theory of relativity in the period 1912-1916 Einstein thought that he was introduced for the first time to the heuristic power of mathematics for formulating new physical theories. Before 1912 he avoided complicated or innovative mathematics.1 In particular, unlike many other mathematicians and physicists Einstein remained unimpressed with the physical ideas in Hermann Minkowski's theory of matter and four-dimensional spacetime, developed during the period 1907-08. Einstein believed instead that Minkowski had introduced a useful mathematical formalism that was not of central
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