The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17 (Documentary Edition)

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert Einstein

This volume finds Einstein recovered and traveling again after a prolonged illness, to Paris, London, and Zurich to receive three honorary doctorates; to the Sixth Solvay Congress in Brussels and to Leyden; and to attend the Constituent Meeting of the Jewish Agency Council in Zurich and the twelfth session of the ICIC in Geneva. By the end of the volume, Einstein embarks on a transatlantic voyage for the first time in five years to spend an academic term at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Einstein’s work focuses on the teleparallel approach to unified field theory, on which he engages in intensive correspondence with ¿ie Cartan and begins his collaboration with Walther Mayer. He also presents popular accounts of his work, surveying the historical progression from classical to twentieth-century physics leading up to the latest developments in unified field