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Albert Einstein, Walther Mayer

SEMI-VEKTOREN UND SPINOREN. [Semi-Vectors and Spinors]. Sonderausgabe [Offprint] aus den Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematischen Klasse, XXXII (1932).

Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at - Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]), 24th January 1933.,

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Author
Albert Einstein, Walther Mayer
Publishers
Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at, Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]), 24th January 1933.
Size
Imperial 8vo (25,4:18,2 cm). 31 [1] pages. Letterpress on machine paper, in original publisher’s brochure on orange stock with black title printing.
Keyword
Mathematik, Astronomie, Meteorologie, Physik & Chemie
Languages
English

Description

First offprint in the original wrappers and new pagination, of this rare seminal paper, at the same time Einstein's last publication before having to leave Nazi-Germany. - Content: Present paper ist the last work by Einstein, co-authored once again by Walther Mayer, that was published in Weimar Germany (Weil no. 187 was printed before). The offprint was distributed by the Prussian exactly a week before the Nazis came to power on January 30th 1933. Einstein, and also Mayer, would have to flee Germany due to their Jewish origins only a few months later. - Einstein's work on semivectors "was stimulated by Ehrenfest's insistence on a better understanding of the relation between single-valued and double-valued representations of the Lorentz group . . . [Einstein and Mayer] went on to relate semivectors to the Dirac equation and to generalize the formalism to general relativity" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 451-452). - Condition: Mint. - Reference: Alicke 152; Boni-Russ-L. 217; Schilpp-Shields 250; Weil 186 (quotes the pagination of the first separate printing, p. 522-550).