3 papers
physics.hist-ph2020
Back to the Roots of Vector and Tensor Calculus. Heaviside versus Gibbs
Alessio Rocci
In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881-1884. This ori…
physics.hist-ph2018
Albert Einstein and the fifth dimension. A new interpretation of the papers published in 1927
Giulio Peruzzi, Alessio Rocci
In 1927 Einstein sent two brief communications to the Prussian Academy of Sciences on Kaluza's five-dimensional theory. In his Einstein biography, Abraham Pais asserted that he cou…
physics.hist-ph2018
Tales from the prehistory of Quantum Gravity. Léon Rosenfeld's earliest contribution
Giulio Peruzzi, Alessio Rocci
The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the earliest work of Léon Rosenfeld, one of the pioneers in the search of Quantum Gravity, the supposed theory unifying quantum theory…