LONDON, FRITZ.

Quantenmechanische Deutung der Theorie von Weyl.

Berlin, Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 42, 1927. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 375-389. [Entire volume: VIII, 917 pp.].

First printing of London's early paper on Gauge Theories and Weak Interactions in which London anticipated many of Weyl and Pauli's ideas on the same subject.

"In the face of such elementary experimental evidence, it must have been an unusually strong metaphysical conviction that prevented Weyl from abandoning the idea that Nature would have to make use of the beautiful geometrical possibility that was o?ered. He stuck to his conviction and evaded discussion of the above-mentioned contradictions through a rather unclear re-interpretation of the concept of "real state", which, however, robbed his theory of its immediate physical meaning and attraction." (From the present paper).

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