First offprint of Einstein’ and Mayer’s paper on the Riemannian Space, 1931

Albert EINSTEIN; Walther MAYER: SYSTEMATISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG ÜBER KOMPATIBLE FELDGLEICHUNGEN, welche in einem Riemannschen Raume mit Fernparallelismus gesetzt werden können. [Systematic Investigation of Consistent Field Equations That Can Be Posited in a Riemannian Space with Distant Parallelism]. Sonderausgabe [Offprint] aus den Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematischen Klasse, XIII (1931). Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]), 30th Mai 1931.

Imperial 8vo (25,4:18,2 cm). 11 [1] pages. Letterpress on machine paper, in original publisher’s brochure on orange stock with black title printing.

First offprint in the original wrappers and new pagination, of this late paper by Einstein about field equations in a Riemannian Space.

Content: This work was written in collaboration with his assistant, the Austrian mathematician Walther Mayer (nicknamed „Einstein's calculator“). In 1928 Einstein already had made use of the Elliptic geometry of German mathematician Bernhard Riemann for his calculations.

Condition: Fine.

Reference: Alicke 149; Schilpp-Shields 250; Weil 180 (quotes the pagination of the first separate printing, p. 257-265).