The scientific correspondence of H. A. Lorentz. Volume 2. The Dutch correspondents (Q721711)

This second volume of the scientific correspondence of H. A. Lorentz (for Volume I see [Zbl 1161.01023]) contains the letters he exchanged with L. E. J. Brouwer, P. Debye, W. Julius, P. Ehrenfest, W. de Sitter, J. D. van der Waals sen., J. D. van der Waals jun., P. Zeeman, D. J. Korteweg, T. J. Stieltjes, and a last letter written in 1928 by Lorentz' wife to Paul Ehrenfest with the request to speak at Lorentz' funeral at the grave side. The total number of letters is 294. Lorentz exchanged 91 letters with Zeeman and 131 letters with Ehrenfest. The letters with Zeeman show that Lorentz was not only a theoretician but very much interested in experiment. He actually did experiments himself. Several letters following Lorentz's lecture in Rome in 1908 concern Lorentz' erroneous conviction that the Rayleigh Jeans radiation law was obviously the correct one. General relativity plays an important role in the correspondence with Ehrenfest and De Sitter. The book contains short biographical notes on most of the correspondents. The notes on Zeeman, Korteweg, and Stieltjes are missing but this does not diminish the value of this publication.