Tullio Levi-Civita

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Tullio Levi-Civita (born March 29, 1873 in Padua , † December 29, 1941 in Rome ) was an Italian mathematician .

Life

He was a student of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and in 1898 became professor of mechanics in Padua. In 1918 he went to Rome. In 1938 he was excluded from his profession by the fascist regime for anti-Semitic reasons.

Levi-Civita invented the covariant derivative , made with his book calcolo differential assoluto the tensor a larger key audience and laid the mathematical foundation for Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity , which he spread in later years in Italy. In this context, the Levi-Civita tensor was named after him. He also introduced the De Sitter room independently of Willem de Sitter . He also dealt extensively with the three-body problem . In 1931 he wrote a book on ordinary and partial differential equations . He also invented the Levi Civita body .

In 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , and in 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1904 he was a corresponding and since 1934 honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1911 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . In 1921 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . The Royal Society awarded him the New Year's Eve Medal in 1922 and accepted him as a Foreign Member in 1930 . Since 1923 he was an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

See also: Levi-Civita context

Fonts

  • The absolute differential calculus and its applications in geometry and physics , Springer 1928 (Italian original Calcolo differenziale assoluto )
  • Questions of classical and relativistic mechanics: 4 lectures given in Spain in January 1921 , Springer 1924, Reprint 1973

literature

  • Judith Goodstein: Einstein's Italian Mathematicians. Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity , American Mathematical Society 2018
  • M. Gliozzi: Levi-Civita, Tullio, Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  • Tullio Levi-Civita: Opere matematiche, 5 volumes, Bologna 1954 to 1970
  • WVD Hodge: Obituary: Tullio Levi-Civita. 1873-1941, Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Society, 1942, pp. 151-165

Web links

Commons : Tullio Levi-Civita  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Levi-Civita, Realta fisica di alconi spazi normali del Bianchi , Rendiconti, Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Volume 26, 1917, pp 519-31
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Tullio Levi-Civita. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 149.
  4. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Levi-Civita, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1941
Place of death Rome