It was co-written with his lifelong friend, the Swiss engineer Michele Besso.
The manuscript that led to his theory of relativity sold for 13.3 million euros in Paris.LONDON -- A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 million euros , including fees, beating all predictions.
"This is without a doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever to come to auction," Christie's said in a statement ahead of the sale. Although this copy isn't the final draft, the Einstein-Besso manuscript shows the trial and error that went into the calculations. When equations about the relativity of rotational movements proved correct, Einstein excitedly wrote in the margins of one of the pages,"Stimmt!" That's German for,"It works!"
"Even today, in 2021, when we study cosmology, or even when we study fusions of black holes, gravitational waves, pulsars, we still use Einstein's equations," French astrophysicist Etienne Klein explained in a
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