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Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1643 · Item · 1953/10/05
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli sends a quotation from P Bergmann's book on relativity, concerning gravitational waves. He writes on the roots of mathematics in the Unconscious, with special reference to the Pythagoreans.

Pauli, Wolfgang
Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1651 · Item · 1953/10/11
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli makes a commentary on, and an addition to, Fierz's lecture in the psychological club. He writes on: 1) Alchemy versus Platonism, God as root of both good and evil 2) the mystical element in Plotinus 3) the concept of "privation" in ancient philosophy of nature. Matter as the manifestation of evil

Pauli, Wolfgang
Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1789 · Item · 1954/05/03
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli mentions in this letter Einstein's rejection of Bohm and de Broglie, and Bohr's short visit to Zürich. He also writes on Plato's concepts of space and on the theory of representation, in particular the inhomogeneous group.

Pauli, Wolfgang
Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1811 · Item · 1954/05/25
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli suggests that Fierz publish his investigations on the Lorentz group. He writes on certain eigenfunctions of the symmetrical top and their regular representation.

Pauli, Wolfgang
Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1864 · Item · 1954/08/10
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli writes about the contents of his article on "Phenomenon and reality" and discusses again the problem of the relation between observer and observed object. He speculates on the possibility that in organic matter, i.e. life, there may exist an influence of the act of observation on the observer, which often could be of a negative, undesirable nature.

Pauli, Wolfgang
Letter from Pauli to Fierz
Letter-1867 · Item · 1954/08/12-1954/08/14
Part of Archives of Wolfgang Pauli

Pauli writes on physics and psyche, on a conversation with Jung on Albertus Magnus and Regiomontanus and the latter's interest in magic. He explains Jung's reaction to the fact that Cicero translated "atom" by "individuum".

Pauli, Wolfgang