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The budding student Pauli, who in 1918 submitted two papers to
Arnold Sommerfeld on the theme "Theory of relativity and gravitation" had
thereby extremely impressed his future teacher. Sommerfeld, who had
intermittently dealt intensively with the theory of relativity was in the
meantime very occupied with themes in the sphere of atomic structure and the
quantum theory and in 1919 sent Wolfgang Pauli the draft of a paper on the
theory of relativity for the "Encyclopaedia of the mathematical sciences". The
publication of the "Encyclopaedia article" which finally assumed the
proportions of a book of some 250 pages, was in 1921. Even today’s
physicists regard it as a thorough, well-researched and comprehensive
presentation of the subject matter.Albert Einstein
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