2006/08/07 by D. C. Salisbury, Salisbury, D. C.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #gr-qc #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0608067
13 pages, contribution to proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, March 10 - 14, 2005, Tenerife, Spain
arxiv created 2006/08/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Peter Bergmann was a co-inventor of the algorithm for converting singular Lagrangian models into a constrained Hamiltonian dynamical formalism. This talk focuses on the work of Bergmann and his collaborators in the period from 1949 to 1951.