Einstein’s working sheets and his search for a unified field theory

Institute of Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany

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Received: 12 April 2019
Received in final form: 11 June 2019
Published online: 2 August 2019

Abstract

The Einstein Archives contain a considerable collection of calculations in the form of working sheets and scratch paper, documenting Einstein’s scientific preoccupations during the last three decades of his life until his death in 1955. This paper provides a brief description of these documents and some indications of what can be expected from a more thorough investigation of these notes.