History of Topics in Special Relativity/Müller's history

Müller's history of special relativity
Date of article creation:	2023-11-17; Last edit: --

The freelance writer and law student Fritz Müller (later known as Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen according to Könneker ) attended Albert Einstein's lecture on relativity in Zürich from January 1911. He wrote a popular report about this lecture, as well as about the subsequent discussion with Einstein, in the German newspaper "Berliner Tageblatt" published in two parts in 16. and 23. October 1911, in which he provided further details. See the full Wikisource transcription of Müller's article which is now in the public domain.

While we already reported about Müller's discussion of the twin paradox (see Twin paradox#Müller (1911), we now give his description of the historical development of special relativity, which is interesting because Müller's account includes direct quotes as well as paraphrased statements made by Einstein himself during their discussion: