EINSTEIN AND HILBERT: THE CREATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY ∗
e-mail: todorov@inrne.bas.bgABSTRACTIt took eight years after Einstein announced the basic physical ideas behind therelativistic gravity theory before the proper mathematical formulation of general relativitywas mastered. The eﬀorts of the greatest physicist and of the greatest mathematician ofthe time were involved and reached a breathtaking concentration during the last month ofthe work.Recent controversy, raised by a much publicized 1997 reading of Hilbert’s proof-sheets of his article of November 1915, is also discussed.