ID 1109132
Лот 330 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Оценочная стоимость
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to Cornelius Lanczos, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 11 September 1935
In German. 1¼ pages, 267 x 185mm. Provenance: Sotheby's, 26-27 November 1980, lot 156.
An outburst against publishing science in Nazi Germany – and losing hope of a unified field theory. Einstein is very interested by Lanczos's most recent paper, 'but I cannot fathom that you as a Jew are still publishing in Germany. This is a form of betrayal. German intellectuals have as a whole behaved disgracefully in the face of all the horrible injustices and have richly deserved to be boycotted. If the non-Jews of other countries don't do it, it's already sad enough'. After this outburst, Einstein moves serenely on to scientific matters: 'Your treatment of the variation principle analogous to the canonical equations is very interesting and elegant'; however he warns that there are equations of the fourth order which are masked by the introduction of hik. 'I cannot yet fully assess the representation of the electromagnetic field', but he considers it 'difficult to consider as natural the representation of the electrical field through symmetrical derivation of a vector'. The letter concludes on a glum note: 'I have arrived after many disappointments at the opinion that we shall have to reconcile ourselves to the lack of an inner connection between the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field'.
| Автор: | Альберт Эйнштейн (1879 - 1955) |
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| Место происхождения: | Германия, Швейцария, США |
| Категория аукционного дома: | Медицина и наука |
| Автор: | Альберт Эйнштейн (1879 - 1955) |
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| Место происхождения: | Германия, Швейцария, США |
| Категория аукционного дома: | Медицина и наука |
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