Item # 723932
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Nov. 28, 1932
* Albert Einstein's "Unified field theory"
The top of page 14 has a one column heading: "EINSTEIN INJECTS NEW 'MATH' TERM INTO HIS THEORY" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 28 pages, rag edition in nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.
AI notes: On November 27, 1932, Albert Einstein presented work in Germany (to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin) in which he incorporated spinorial mathematics into his ongoing attempts at a unified field theory, marking a notable moment in his engagement with a concept that was still relatively new to most physicists. Spinors themselves were not invented by Einstein—they were introduced earlier by the French mathematician Élie Cartan in the 1910s—but Einstein’s 1932 work showed him actively adapting spinor-like objects (sometimes called “semivectors”) to address problems involving the quantum behavior of matter, particularly electron properties that could not be captured by classical tensor mathematics alone. This step reflected Einstein’s growing recognition that purely classical geometry was insufficient for unifying gravitation and electromagnetism, and it underscored the increasing influence of quantum-inspired mathematical structures in theoretical physics during the early 1930s.
November 28, 1932
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Nov. 28, 1932
* Albert Einstein's "Unified field theory"
The top of page 14 has a one column heading: "EINSTEIN INJECTS NEW 'MATH' TERM INTO HIS THEORY" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 28 pages, rag edition in nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.
AI notes: On November 27, 1932, Albert Einstein presented work in Germany (to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin) in which he incorporated spinorial mathematics into his ongoing attempts at a unified field theory, marking a notable moment in his engagement with a concept that was still relatively new to most physicists. Spinors themselves were not invented by Einstein—they were introduced earlier by the French mathematician Élie Cartan in the 1910s—but Einstein’s 1932 work showed him actively adapting spinor-like objects (sometimes called “semivectors”) to address problems involving the quantum behavior of matter, particularly electron properties that could not be captured by classical tensor mathematics alone. This step reflected Einstein’s growing recognition that purely classical geometry was insufficient for unifying gravitation and electromagnetism, and it underscored the increasing influence of quantum-inspired mathematical structures in theoretical physics during the early 1930s.
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