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The Raimond Struble Correspondence With Karl Menger, John T. Tate, and Albert Einstein contains letters between Menger, Tate, and Einstein as well as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and E.L. Hill. There is also a summary of the correspondence written in 1996 by Raimond Struble and an article about the materials titled "The Struble-Einstein Correspondence," by Marcus C. Werner from 2014. The letters discuss observations of binary stars that support Einstein's theory of special relativity and refute theories of physicist Walther Ritz.
Raimond Aldrich Struble was born in Forest Lake, Minnesota in 1924 and spent part of his childhood in Iowa. He received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics, all from Notre Dame University. He worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and finally N.C. State University starting in 1958 as a professor of mathematics. Struble retired from NC State in 1987 and passed away in 2013.
Raimond Aldrich Struble was born in Forest Lake, Minnesota in 1924 and spent part of his childhood in Iowa. He received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics, all from Notre Dame University. He worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and finally N.C. State University starting in 1958 as a professor of mathematics. Struble retired from NC State in 1987 and passed away in 2013.
Dr. Struble published many articles and a textbook, Nonlinear Differential Equations. He also established the Applied Mathematics doctorate program at NC State.
The Raimond Struble Correspondence With Karl Menger, John T. Tate, and Albert Einstein contains letters between Menger, Tate, and Einstein as well as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and E.L. Hill. There is also a summary of the correspondence written in 1996 by Raimond Struble and an article about the materials titled "The Struble-Einstein Correspondence," by Marcus C. Werner from 2014. The letters discuss observations of binary stars that support Einstein's theory of special relativity and refute theories of physicist Walther Ritz.
While a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame, Struble became interested in how observations of binary stars would support Einstein's theory of special relativity and refute physicist Walther Ritz's emission theory of light. With support from his mentor Karl Menger, Struble sent a proposal to John T. Tate to publish a letter to the editor in the Physical Review on the subject but was turned down. Struble then wrote a letter to Einstein seeking confirmation of his idea. Einstein essentially agreed with Struble's deductions but offered revised mathematical equations. While Menger urged Struble to pursue publication, he decided against it since he felt he would have to use Einstein's revised math and did not want to take credit for that work.
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[Identification of item], Raimond Struble Correspondence With Karl Menger, John T. Tate, and Albert Einstein, MC 00734, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Some materials may not have been digitized or made available online.
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"This article discusses the hitherto unpublished corresondence of Struble in 1947 with Menger, Chandrasekhar, and finally Einstein about binary star observations supporting Einstein's special relativity against Ritz's emission theory."
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[Identification of item], Raimond Struble Correspondence With Karl Menger, John T. Tate, and Albert Einstein, MC 00734, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.