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PAULI, Wolfgang. Relativitätstheorie. Foreword by ARNOLD SOMMERFELD (1868-1931). Offprint from: Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1921.
8o. Text diagrams. Printed boards. Provenance: JAMES W. ALEXANDER, 1881-1971, mathematician (signature on front cover).
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. Written when he was just 20 years of age, Pauli's first work is a critical presentation of the mathematical foundations of relativity theory, as well as its physical significance. "[Pauli] took thorough account of the already very considerable literature on the subject but at the same time clearly put forth his own interpretation. Despite the necessary brevity of discussion, the monograph is a superior introduction to the special and general theories of relativity; it is in addition a first-rate historical document of science, since, together with H. Weyl's Raum, Zeit, Materie, it is the first comprehensive presentation of the mathematical and physical ideas of Einstein, who himself never wrote a large work about his theory" (DSB). Pauli wrote Relativitätstheorie at the request of his teacher Arnold Sommerfeld, who was delighted by Pauli's performance, writing to Einstein that Pauli's work was "simply masterful."
This copy of Pauli's work is from the library of Pieter Zeeman, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his discovery of the Zeeman effect-the polarization of spectral lines by a magnetic field. The association is particularly significant, since Pauli's own Nobel Prize (awarded in 1945) was for his 1924-25 discovery of the exclusion principle, which was indispensable to the understanding of the anomalous Zeeman effect in the old quantum theory of the atom. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. 125-26.
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. Written when he was just 20 years of age, Pauli's first work is a critical presentation of the mathematical foundations of relativity theory, as well as its physical significance. "[Pauli] took thorough account of the already very considerable literature on the subject but at the same time clearly put forth his own interpretation. Despite the necessary brevity of discussion, the monograph is a superior introduction to the special and general theories of relativity; it is in addition a first-rate historical document of science, since, together with H. Weyl's Raum, Zeit, Materie, it is the first comprehensive presentation of the mathematical and physical ideas of Einstein, who himself never wrote a large work about his theory" (DSB). Pauli wrote Relativitätstheorie at the request of his teacher Arnold Sommerfeld, who was delighted by Pauli's performance, writing to Einstein that Pauli's work was "simply masterful."
This copy of Pauli's work is from the library of Pieter Zeeman, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his discovery of the Zeeman effect-the polarization of spectral lines by a magnetic field. The association is particularly significant, since Pauli's own Nobel Prize (awarded in 1945) was for his 1924-25 discovery of the exclusion principle, which was indispensable to the understanding of the anomalous Zeeman effect in the old quantum theory of the atom. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. 125-26.