Marcel Grossman (2 results)

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, bound in wraps. Some rubbing and edgewear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 4to. 11"h x 8 1/2"w. Contents: "Limited" Nuclear War?" by James G. Blight "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Nuclear Waste Disposal" by P. Z. Grossman and E. S. Cassidy "Scientific Fraud" by C. J. List "Increasing Public Participation in Controversies Involving Hazards" by Deborah G. Mayo "Science and the Peer Review" by Liora Salter "Science and Justice" by Michael A. Simon.…

First edition of Einstein's early articulation of general relativity, his first paper to describe gravity as the curvature of spacetime, containing "virtually all the essential features of his general theory of relativity" (Norton, p. 253). In 1912, Einstein's old school friend Marcel Grossman (1878-1936) secured him a professorship at ETH Zurich, where they had both studied as undergraduates. The two men began a collaboration to provide a firmer mathematical foundation to Einstein's concept of gravity as a geometrical property of time and space. The two sections of the Entwurf outline the resulting theory in full, complete with gravitational field equations relating the curvature of spacetime to the distribution of mass and energy within it. Einstein contributed the initial section focussing on physical theories, while Grossman added the following section developing the more complex mathematical formulae. Michel Janssen, editor of the Einstein Papers Project, notes that the Entwurf "was published as a separatum in early 1913 and was reprinted the following year in Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik" (p. 1). The Zeitschrift reprint includes an added section outlining the famed "Hole" argument. An offprint dated 1914 was published with the journal. Provenance: Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874-1952), the American academic who studied the foundations of mathematics at Harvard for 40 years, with his signature on the front wrapper. Boni 50; Norman 693; Weil 58a. Michael Janssen, "Einstein's First Systematic Exposition of General Relativity", 2004; John Norton, "How Einstein found his field equations: 1912-1915", Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, vol. 14, no. 2, 1984. Octavo. Device to title page, formulae in the text. Original light green wrappers printed in black. Light rubbing, chipping, and creasing to wrappers, contents clean: a very good copy indeed.…