Reply to H. Margenau's "Einstein's conception of reality" autograph manuscript : [Princeton, New Jersey], [ca. 1949].

Record ID: 
336686
Accession number: 
MA 3648.10
Author: 
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Credit: 
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1980.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes: 

Year and location of writing inferred from contents of the collection.
Part of a collection of autograph manuscript notes and short essays related to Albert Einstein's essay "Replies to Criticism" printed in P.A. Schilpp, ed., Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related catalog records for more information. The collection is housed with Einstein's Autobiographical notes (MA 3647), which was also printed in Schilpp.

Summary: 

Notes in response to Margenau's essay "Einstein's conception of reality" (printed in Schilpp), commenting on the term "relativity," that objectivity has nothing to do with the group properties of fundamental equations, that the representation of physical laws by means of differential equations and possible other forms of expression, and on the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen paradox. With a full page of equations written on the verso of p. 1.

Provenance: 
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1980.