The importance of the covariant idea in the establishment of relativity theory by Enstein is stressed and the promotion of the covariant idea on the development of the oretical physics in late decades is discussed.%论述爱因斯坦在建立相对论的过程中,协变性思想所起的重要作用,并介绍了近几十年来,协变性思想对理论物理学发展的推动作用.
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