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Einstein's Italian mathematicians

by Judith R. Goodstein

MathematicsMathematiciansCalculus of tensorsBiographyGeneral relativity (Physics)Mathematicians, biographyItaly, biographyGeneral relativity (physics)

An exchange of information between Italian Tullio Levi-Civita and Hungarian born Theodore Von Kármán, based on mathematics by Italian Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, helped provide the mathematical background used by Albert Einstein in forming his general theory of relativity.

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