Tullio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita · Science & Medicine
Tensor calculus, foundational to general relativity
1873, Padua, Italy — 1941, Rome, Italy
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Levi-Civita was an Italian mathematician who, with his teacher Ricci-Curbastro, developed the absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) that became the mathematical foundation of Einstein's general relativity, and he introduced the concept of parallel transport. He was born into a Jewish family and was stripped of his posts under Italy's 1938 racial laws.
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Tensor calculus, foundational to general relativity
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