doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality fields birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
ulisse dini enrico betti 06 august 1925 bologna lugo di romagna 220px italian mathematics 12 january 1853 tensor calculus ricci calculus tullio levi-civita ricci-curbastro . jpg gregorio ricci-curbastro
 gregorio ricci-curbastro scuola normale superiore di pisa
gregorio ricci-curbastro

gregorio ricci-curbastro -lrb- ; 12 january 1853 -- 6 august 1925 -rrb- was an italian mathematician born in lugo di romagna .
he is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus , but also published important works in other fields .
with his former student tullio levi-civita , he wrote his most famous single publication , a pioneering work on the calculus of tensors , signing it as gregorio ricci .
this appears to be the only time that ricci-curbastro used the shortened form of his name in a publication , and continues to cause confusion .
ricci-curbastro also published important works in other fields , including a book on higher algebra and infinitesimal analysis , and papers on the theory of real numbers , an area in which he extended the research begun by dedekind .
