Einstein's Italian mathematicians
Subtitle: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the birth of general relativity
By: Judith R. Goodstein
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781470428464
Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematicians; Calculus of tensors; Biography; General relativity (Physics)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.