Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979
ISBN 10: 0691082294 ISBN 13: 9780691082295
Da: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. Reprints some 39 friendly but technical letters between the great French mathematician and the German theoretical physicist, in their original French & German, with English translations opposite. Cartan's work was instrumental in moving Einstein away from a unified field theory based on distant parallelism. Debever's preface, in French, is NOT translated. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; no names or marks; xvii, blank, 233 pages + contents page; 2 b/w plates reproducing a letter by Cartan and a post card from Einstein; errata card laid in. Size: Octavo.