Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
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This is a list of contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity. For ease of readability, the contributions (in brackets) are unlinked but can be found in the contributors' article.
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- Élie CartanÉlie CartanÉlie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications...
(curvature computation, early extensions of GTR, Cartan geometries) - Elwin Bruno ChristoffelElwin Bruno ChristoffelElwin Bruno Christoffel was a German mathematician and physicist.-Life:...
(connections, tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry) - Clarissa-Marie Claudel (Geometry of photon surfaces)
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- Luther P. EisenhartLuther P. EisenhartLuther Pfahler Eisenhart was an American mathematician, best known today for his contributions to semi-Riemannian geometry.-Life:...
(semi-Riemannian geometries) - Frank B. Estabrook (Wahlquist-Estabrook approach to solving PDEs; see also parent list)
- Leonhard EulerLeonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...
(Euler-Lagrange equation, from which the geodesic equation is obtained)
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- Joseph Louis LagrangeJoseph Louis LagrangeJoseph-Louis Lagrange , born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, was a mathematician and astronomer, who was born in Turin, Piedmont, lived part of his life in Prussia and part in France, making significant contributions to all fields of analysis, to number theory, and to classical and celestial mechanics...
(Lagrangian mechanics, Euler-Lagrange equation) - Tullio Levi-CivitaTullio Levi-CivitaTullio Levi-Civita, FRS was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus...
(tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry; see also parent list) - André LichnerowiczAndré LichnerowiczAndré Lichnerowicz was a noted French differential geometer and mathematical physicist of Polish descent.-Biography:...
(tensor calculus, transformation groups)
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- Alexander MacfarlaneAlexander MacfarlaneAlexander Macfarlane was a Nova Scotia lawyer and political figure. He was a member of the Canadian Senate from 1870 to 1898. His surname also appears as McFarlane in some sources....
(space analysis and Algebra of Physics) - Jerrold E. MarsdenJerrold E. MarsdenJerrold Eldon Marsden , was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Career:Marsden earned his B.Sc...
(linear stability)
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- Gregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He was born at Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of the tensor calculus but published important work in many fields....
(Ricci tensor, differential geometry) - Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)
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- Richard SchoenRichard SchoenRichard Melvin Schoen is an American mathematician. Born in Fort Recovery, Ohio, he received his PhD in 1977 from Stanford University where he is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences...
(Yamabe problemYamabe problemThe Yamabe problem in differential geometry concerns the existence of Riemannian metrics with constant scalar curvature, and takes its name from the mathematician Hidehiko Yamabe. Although claimed to have a solution in 1960, a critical error...
; see also parent list) - Corrado SegreCorrado SegreCorrado Segre was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry....
(Segre classification)
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- Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist-Estabrook algorithm; see also parent list)
- Hermann WeylHermann WeylHermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.His...
(Weyl tensor, gauge theories; see also parent list) - Eugene P. Wigner (stabilizers in Lorentz group)