Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein: Letters on Absolute Parallelism, 1929-1932

Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein: Letters on Absolute Parallelism, 1929-1932

Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein: Letters on Absolute Parallelism, 1929-1932

Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein: Letters on Absolute Parallelism, 1929-1932

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Published here in the original German and French, along with an English translation, the correspondence between Albert Einstein and Elie Cartan includes letters written between 1929 and 1932, after which time Einstein abandoned his unified field theory based on absolute parallelism.

Originally published in 1979.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691636542
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 04/19/2016
Series: Princeton Legacy Library , #1252
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

  • Frontmatter, pg. i
  • Présentation, pg. v
  • Préface, pg. vii
  • Note Iiminaire au sujet des traductions / Preliminary note on the translation, pg. 1
  • Table des lettres, pg. 2
  • 1929: I to XIV, AI to AXIV, pg. 4
  • 1930: XV to XXXII, AXV to AXXXII, pg. 100
  • 1931: XXXIII, AXXXIII, pg. 202
  • 1932: XXXV to XXXIX, AXXXV to AXXXIX, pg. 208
  • Bibliographie, pg. 230
  • CONTENTS, pg. 235



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