Text: Einstein Plagiarizes Hilbert's Solution to General Relativity Equations In summary, Einstein's letter of Nov. 18, 1915 to Hilbert proves that Hilbert had the correct equations before Einstein. Einstein's claim that he had the correct equations weeks earlier is contradicted by Einstein's paper to the Prussian Academy of Nov. 11, 1915, not weeks, but just one week earlier. Since Einstein still believed his erroneous equations were correct as late as Nov. 18, 1915, it is clear that Hilbert, who had the correct equations before Nov. 18, 1915, had arrived at them before Einstein. . . . In summary, one can say that the general theory of relativity is the creation of three men: 1. Einstein, who by the analogy with Gauss's theory of curved surfaces, concluded that the gravitational field must be expressed by the 10 componets of the metric tensor of a curved four-dimensional Minkowski space-time. 2. Grossman, who identified the contracted Riemann tensor as the key for the solution of the problem posed by Einstein. 3. Hilbert, for having completed the mathematical structure of the theory with his variational principle for the curvature scalar in four space-time dimensions. ‹F. Winterberg, On "Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute" http://www.physics.unr.edu/faculty/winterberg/Hilbert-Einstein.pdf

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