Einstein's Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity

by Judith R. Goodstein

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In the first decade of the twentieth century as Albert Einstein began formulating a revolutionary theory of gravity, the Italian mathematician Gregorio Ricci was entering the later stages of what appeared to be a productive if not particularly memorable career, devoted largely to what his colleagues regarded as the dogged development of a mathematical language he called the absolute differential calculus. In 1912, the work of these two dedicated scientists would intersect-and physics and mathematics would never be the same. Einstein's Italian Mathematicians chronicles the lives and intellectual contributions of Ricci and his brilliant student Tullio Levi-Civita, including letters, interviews, memoranda, and other personal and professional papers, to tell the remarkable, little-known story of how two Italian academicians, of widely divergent backgrounds and temperaments, came to provide the indispensable mathematical foundation-today known as the tensor calculus-for general relativity.
  • ISBN13 9781470428464
  • Publish Date 30 August 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint American Mathematical Society
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 227
  • Language English