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Tilman Sauer
Tel: 626 - 395 8544
Einstein Papers Project
California Institute of Technology 20-7
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
Tel. +1 - 626 - 395 8544
Fax. +1 - 626 - 449 0814
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Einstein Papers Project:
www.einstein.caltech.edu
Einstein Archives Online:
www.alberteinstein.info
The History of General Relativity:
H. Goenner, J. Renn, J. Ritter, T. Sauer (eds):
The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity (1998)
M. Janssen, J.D. Norton, J. Renn, T. Sauer, J. Stachel:
The Genesis of General Relativity (ed. J. Renn), Volume 1: Einstein's Zurich Notebook. Introduction and Source (2007)
M. Janssen, J.D. Norton, J. Renn, T. Sauer, J. Stachel:
The Genesis of General Relativity (ed. J. Renn), Volume 2: Einstein's Zurich Notebook. Commentary and Essays (2007)
David Hilbert's Foundational Lectures:
T. Sauer and U. Majer (eds):
David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics, 1898-1914 (in preparation)
T. Sauer and U. Majer (eds):
David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics, 1915-1927 (2009)
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein:
Volume 3: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1911 (1993) (contributing editor)
Volume 4: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914 (1995) (contributing editor)
Volume 9: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919-April 1920 (2004)
Volume 10: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence (2006)
Volume 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, and Errata to Volumes 1-10 (2009) Full text available online in pdf-format!
Volume 12: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January-December 1921 (2009)
Volume 13: The Berlin Years: Writings and Correspondence, January 1922-March 1923 (in press)
Volume 14: The Berlin Years: Writings and Correspondence, April 1923-June 1925 (in preparation)
Selected Recent Articles:
(Check my publications listed at:
arXiv.org;
philsci-archive;
Google scholar;
SPIRES)
- "Einstein's quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical arguments for a new statistics" (with E. Perez),
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 64 (2010), 561-612;
[arXiv:1004.5567v1] or
[doi:10.1007/s00407-010-0066-x]
- "Myron Mathisson: what little we know of his life" (with A. Trautman),
Acta Physica Polonica B
Proc. Suppl., Vol. 1 (2008), 7-26.
[arXiv:0802.2971v1].
- "Remarks on the Origin of Path Integration: Einstein and Feynman."
In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference 'Path Integrals - New Trends and Perspectives,' (PI07)
Dresden, 23-28 September 2007. W. Janke and A. Pelster (eds), World Scientific 2008, 3-13 [arXiv:0801.1654v1 [physics.hist-ph]].
- "Nova Geminorum 1912 and the Origin of the Idea of Gravitational Lensing."
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 62 (2008) 1-22;
[arXiv:0704.0963v1 [physics.hist-ph]] or [doi.10.1007/s00407-007-0008-4].
- "Einstein's Unified Field Theory Program." To appear in Cambridge Companion to Einstein, ed. M.Janssen and C.Lehner, Cambridge University Press.
[philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003293].
- ''An Einstein manuscript on the EPR paradox for spin observables.''
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007) 879-887;
[philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003222] or [doi.10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.03.002].
- ''Einstein and the Early Theory of Superconductivity, 1919-1922.''
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 61 (2007) 159-211; [www.arxiv.org/physics/0612159] or
[doi.10.1007/s00407-006-0122-8].
- ''Pathways out of Classical Physics. Einstein's Double Strategy in his
Search for the Gravitational Field Equation.'' (with J.Renn). In:
M.Janssen, J.Norton, J.Renn, T.Sauer, J.Stachel. The Genesis of General Relativity (ed. J. Renn) Vol. 1: Einstein's Zurich Notebook, Introduction and Source. Springer, 2007, 113-312. [pdf, 199pp., 1.1MB]
- ''Field Equations in Teleparallel Space-time: Einstein's Fernparallelismus Approach Towards Unified Field Theory.''
Historia Mathematica 33 (2006) 399-439. [doi:10.1016/j.hm.2005.11.005] or [www.arxiv.org/physics/0405142].
- ''Einstein Equations and Hilbert Action: What is missing on page 8 of the proofs for Hilbert's First Communication on the Foundations of Physics?'' Archive for History of Exact Sciences 59 (2005) 577-590 [doi.10.1007/s00407-005-0100-6].
- ''Hilbert's 'World Equations' and His Vision of a Unified Science.'' (with U. Majer) In The Universe of General Relativity, ed. A.J.Kox, J.Eisenstaedt. (Einstein Studies Vol. 11). Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2005, 259-276. [www.arxiv.org/physics/0405110].
- ''Einstein's review paper on general relativity theory.'' In: Landmark writings in western Mathematics, 1640-1940, ed. I. Grattan-Guiness, Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 802-822 [www.arxiv.org/physics/0405066].
- ''The Challenge of Editing Einstein's Scientific Manuscripts.''
Documentary Editing 26(2004): 145-165 [www.arxiv.org/physics/0412142].
- ''The Feynman Path Goes Monte Carlo.'' In: Fluctuating Paths and Fields, ed. W. Janke et al., Singapore: World Scientific, 2001, pp. 29-41 [www.arxiv.org/physics/0107010].
- ''The Relativity of Discovery: Hilbert's First Note on the Foundations of Physics.'' Archive for History of Exact Sciences 53 (1999), pp. 529-575 [www.arxiv.org/physics/9811050]
- ''Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation.'' (with J. Renn) In: The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity, eds. H. Goenner, J. Renn, J. Ritter, and T. Sauer. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1999 (Einstein Studies 7), pp. 87-125. (pdf)
- ''The Origin of Gravitational Lensing. A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper.'' (with J. Renn and J. Stachel) Science 275 (1997) pp.184-186