Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (born January 12, 1853 in Lugo , Province of Ravenna , † August 6, 1925 in Bologna ) was an Italian mathematician . He was most famous for his research on tensor calculus . The Ricci river and the Ricci tensor are named after Ricci-Curbastro .
Life
Ricci-Curbastro studied philosophy and mathematics from 1869 to 1870 at the age of sixteen at the University of La Sapienza in Rome and continued his studies after a break in Bologna (1872–73) and Pisa . In 1875 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Fuchs' investigations into linear differential equations . Then he continued his studies at the Technical University of Munich from 1877-78 . In 1879 he returned to the University of Pisa , first as an assistant and from 1880 as a professor of mathematical physics. He held this chair until his death.
Ricci-Curbastro published over sixty papers in the field of mathematics. His work on the "absolute differential calculus" became the basis of tensor analysis and also served Albert Einstein in formulating the general theory of relativity .
Many of his works published after 1900 were created in collaboration with his student Tullio Levi-Civita . In the Netherlands, Jan Schouten expanded this theory further in his book The Ricci Calculus .
literature
- P. Speziali, entry in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Judith Goodstein: Einstein's Italian Mathematicians. Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity , American Mathematical Society 2018
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
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| SURNAME | Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugo , Province of Ravenna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bologna |