MINKOWSKI, Hermann. Raum und Zeit. Vortrag, gehalten auf der 80. Natur-Forscher-Versammlung zu Kln am 21. September 1908, Leipzig and berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8, half-tone frontispiece portrait after a photograph by emil Logs, publisher's advertisments at end, contemporary printed wrappers.

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MINKOWSKI, Hermann. Raum und Zeit. Vortrag, gehalten auf der 80. Natur-Forscher-Versammlung zu Kln am 21. September 1908, Leipzig and berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8, half-tone frontispiece portrait after a photograph by emil Logs, publisher's advertisments at end, contemporary printed wrappers.

FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING, offprint from: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume 18. "Minkowski's ideas made it possible for Einstein to expand the relativity theory from its specific to its general form ... and they became a framework for all later developments in relativity physics ... The present offprint from the Jahresberichte was commissioned as a tribute after Minkowski's sudden and tragic death" (Norman). Norman 1514; PMM 401.

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