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Einstein's Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory **
Author(s) -
Sauer Tilman,
Schütz Tobias
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
berichte zur wissenschaftsgeschichte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1522-2365
pISSN - 0170-6233
DOI - 10.1002/bewi.202000007
Subject(s) - einstein , unified field theory , theoretical physics , electromagnetism , field (mathematics) , gravitation , higher dimensional einstein gravity , classical field theory , epistemology , point (geometry) , physics , philosophy , theory of relativity , classical mechanics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , geometry , pure mathematics , introduction to the mathematics of general relativity , numerical relativity
In this note, we point attention to and briefly discuss a curious manuscript of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled “Unified Field Theory,” the only such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further specification. Apparently never intended for publication, the manuscript sheds light both on Einstein′s modus operandi as well as on the public role of Einstein′s later work on a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism.