IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-540-68242-4_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Foundations of Physics: Mitteilungen (1915 and 1917)

In: David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1915-1927

Author

Listed:
  • Tilman Sauer

    (Einstein Papers Project California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences MC 20-7)

  • Ulrich Majer

    (Philosophisches Seminar-Hilbert-Edition-Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Abstract

The first document that provides insight into Hilbert’s concern with Einstein’s general theory of relativity and with a unified field theory of the foundations of physics is perhaps also his best known. It is his “First Communication” on the “Foundations of Physics” (Hilbert 1915). This note was submitted to the Göttingen Academy of Science for publication in its Proceedings on 20 November 1915. It was followed by a “Second Communication” that was submitted to the Academy a year later on 23 December 1916 (Hilbert 1917). In 1924, Hilbert combined both papers into a single article and made some revisions before it was reprinted in the Mathematische Annalen (Hilbert 1924). Today, Hilbert’s work in general relativity and unified field theory is known primarily through this 1924 paper, which was reprinted again with a few, but very minor changes, in the third volume of his Gesammelte Abhandlungen (Hilbert 1935, pp. 258–289).

Suggested Citation

  • Tilman Sauer & Ulrich Majer, 2010. "The Foundations of Physics: Mitteilungen (1915 and 1917)," Springer Books, in: Tilman Sauer & Ulrich Majer (ed.), David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1915-1927, chapter 0, pages 25-72, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-68242-4_1
    DOI: 10.1007/b12915_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-68242-4_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.