Tilman Sauer

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Tilman Sauer (* 1963 ) is a German science historian .

Sauer received his physics diploma from the Free University of Berlin in 1990 and received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the TU Berlin in 1994 . From 1994 to 1996 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 1997 to 1999 he worked for the Hilbert edition at the University of Göttingen . From 1999 to 2001 he was an assistant at the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Bern . He has been a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of History at Caltech since 2001 . In 2010/2011 he was a lecturer in the history of science at the University of Bern. He has been a professor at the University of Mainz since 2015 .

Sauer deals with the history of general relativity (AR), the scientific work of Albert Einstein and is (from volume 9) co-editor of Einstein's Collected Works (Einstein Paper Project). In particular, he works on the scientific manuscripts on AR and unified field theory. In particular, he examined and edited, together with Jürgen Renn, Einstein's 1912 Zurich notebook, which is important for the history of the AR. Among other things, they found that Einstein had already developed his ideas on the gravitational lensing effect back then (1912) , which he only published in 1936.

Sauer also researched David Hilbert's contributions to the early history of AR and the priority dispute Hilbert-Einstein and Hilbert's program on the fundamentals of physics. The priority dispute is, among other things, about the question of what is on a missing page of a flag print from Hilbert's essay - Sauer is of the opinion that the complete Einstein field equations were not yet there.

Sauer also worked a. a. with Richard Feynman and the development of the theory of path integrals .

Fonts

  • with Hubert Goenner , Jürgen Renn , J. Ritter (editors): The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity , Einstein Studies Volume 7, Birkhäuser 1998 (in it by Sauer with Renn: Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation )
  • with Michel Janssen , John D. Norton , Jürgen Renn, John Stachel : The Genesis of General Relativity , Volume 1 Einstein's Zurich Notebook. Introduction and Source . Volume 2 Einstein's Zurich Notebook. Commentary and Essays . Springer Verlag, 2007 (in it by Sauer: Pathways out of Classical Physics. Einstein's Double Strategy in his Search for the Gravitational Field Equation )
  • with Ulrich Majer (editor): David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1915-1927: relativity, quantum theory and epistemology , Springer Verlag 2009
  • Albert Einstein's 1916 Review Article on General Relativity , in Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Ed.) Landmark writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 , Arxiv
  • with Renn: Einstein's Zurich notebook: the discovery of the field equations of gravitation in 1912 , Physikalische Blätter, Volume 52, 1996, pp. 865–872
  • with Renn: Einstein's Zurich Notebook , preprint MPI History of Science, Berlin
  • with Renn: Errors and insights: reconstructing the genesis of general relativity from Einstein's Zürich notebook , in: Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Renn, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Ed.) Reworking the bench. Research notebooks in the history of science , Kluwer 2003, pp. 253-268

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sauer at the University of Bern ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / philoscience.unibe.ch
  2. ↑ He reports on it in The Challenge of Editing Einstein's Scientific Manuscripts , 2004
  3. ↑ The importance of the notebook was first recognized by John Stachel; Parts were reconstructed by John D. Norton in 1984 and evaluated for the early history of AR (Norton How Einstein found his field equations , Historical studies in the physical sciences, Volume 14, 1984, pp. 253-316)
  4. ^ Renn, Sauer, Stachel The Origin of Gravitational Lensing. A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper , Science, Volume 275, 1997, pp. 184-186. Renn, Sauer Eclipses of the stars: Mandl, Einstein, and the early history of gravitational lensing , in Abhay Ashtekar , Robert Cohen, Don Howard, Renn, Sahotra Sarkar, Abner Shimony (Eds.) Revisiting the foundations of relativistic physics. Festschrift in honor of John Stachel , Kluwer 2003, pp. 69–92, German as In the spotlight of the stars: Einstein, Mandl and the origins of gravitational lens research , in Hilmar W. Duerbeck , Wolfgang R. Dick (ed.) Einstein's Kosmos (Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 27), Harri Deutsch 2005, pp. 210-239
  5. ^ Sauer The Relativity of Discovery: Hilbert's First Note on the Foundations of Physics , Archive History Exact Sciences, Volume 53, 1999, pp. 529-575 .
  6. ↑ Sauer 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, Vol. 59, 2005, 577-590. The flag withdrawal was discovered by Jürgen Renn, John Stachel and Leo Corry ; Science Vol. 278, 1997, p. 1270. Daniela Wuensch , for example, had a different opinion .
  7. ↑ This was also the subject of his dissertation in theoretical physics Development and application of refined path integral Monte Carlo methods 1994
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963