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Authors: | Sauer, Tilman Schütz, Tobias |
Title: | Einstein on involutions in projective geometry |
Online publication date: | 27-Sep-2021 |
Year of first publication: | 2021 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | We discuss Einstein’s knowledge of projective geometry. We show that two pages of Einstein’s Scratch Notebook from around 1912 with geometrical sketches can directly be associated with similar sketches in manuscript pages dating from his Princeton years. By this correspondence, we show that the sketches are all related to a common theme, the discussion of involution in a projective geometry setting with particular emphasis on the infinite point. We offer a conjecture as to the probable purpose of these geometric considerations. |
DDC: | 510 Mathematik 510 Mathematics |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 08 Physik, Mathematik u. Informatik |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6369 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Archive for history of exact sciences 75 |
Pages or article number: | 523 555 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Publisher place: | Berlin u.a. |
Issue date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 1432-0657 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00270-z |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s00407-020-00270-z |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |
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