| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM |  |
| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM | |
| $ 300 |
| First edition in German of The Mathematical Theory of Relativity (Cambridge 1923), translated by Alexander Ostrowski and Harry Schmidt. With an appendix by Albert Einstein: Eddingtons Theorie und Hamiltonisches Prinzip (p. 367-71). Includes bibliography (p. XII-XIV), and index. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen, 18. "In 1923 came Eddington's great book, Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Einstein said in 1954 that he considered this book the finest presentation of the subject in any language, and of its author he said, 'He was one of the first to recognize that the displacement field was the most important concept of general relativity theory, for this concept allowed us to do without the inertial system.' In this book Eddington gave the substance of the original papers of Einstein, deSitter, and Weyl but departed from their presentations to give a 'continuous chain of deduction,' including many contributions of his own, both in interpretation and in derivation of equations. With intuitive brilliance he modified Weyl's affine geometry of world structure by means of a new mathematical procedure, parallel displacement, which in itself was a not unimportant contribution to geometry"(A. Vibert Douglas in D. S. B., 4, p. 281). |
| * Weill 149. |