Einstein's Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
2020-08-25 v1
Abstract
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manuscript of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled "Unified Field Theory," the only such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further specification.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.
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@article{arxiv.2008.10005,
title = {Einstein's Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory},
author = {Tilman Sauer and Tobias Schütz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10005},
year = {2020}
}
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13 pp