BIB_ID
336941
Accession number
MA 4725.15
Creator
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Display Date
[before 1918 Jan. 17].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Horace Wood Brock, Mr. John Biddle Brock, and Ms. Hope Brock Winthrop, in loving memory of their parents, Horace Brock (1918-1981) and Hope Distler Brock (1908-1988), 1991.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 13.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Albert Einstein to the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information (MA 4725.1-25).
Place and date of writing from published letter.
Place and date of writing from published letter.
Provenance
Mr. Horace Wood Brock, Mr. John Biddle Brock, and Ms. Hope Brock Winthrop.
Summary
Commenting on the errors found by Freundlich in a paper written by de Donder; encouraging him, in a postscript, to make it "known that you discovered de Donder's error. I was very pleased that you spotted the crux of the problem."
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