Zur einheitlichen Feldtheorie. Weil 165*. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss.

Publisher Information: 1929.

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Zur einheitlichen Feldtheorie. Offprint from Sitzungsberichten der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 (1929). 8vo. 8pp. Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaft, 1929. 256 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled and creased. Very good.

First Separate Edition. "In 1928, [Einstein] embarked on a new approach to a unified field theory . . . involving what he called 'distant parallelism'. . . . By early 1929 he had solved the main problems involved in writing down field equations for his unified theory. On the day of official publication of the third of a formidably technical series of nine articles on the theory . . . excited headlines appeared in foreign newspapers throughout the world. . . . In this frenzied, unscientific atmosphere, Einstein's new theory was hailed in the press as an outstanding scientific advance. Yet Einstein had stated in his article that it was still tentative; and soon he found he had to abandon it (Hoffman, Einstein, pp. 225-26). This paper is included on Shields's list of Einstein's most significant papers; see Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist (1949), p. 758. Weil 165. Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 344-46.

Book Id: 37419

Price: $750.00

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