Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
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| Born | 12 January 1853 Lugo di Romagna |
| Died | 6 August 1925 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Doctoral advisor | Ulisse Dini Enrico Betti |
| Doctoral students | Tullio Levi-Civita |
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) 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.
His most famous single publication, The Absolute Differential Calculus, was published under the name Ricci and co-authored by his former student Tullio Levi-Civita. 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.
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[edit] References
- Tonolo, Angelo Commemorazione di Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro nel primo centenario della nascita Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova, 23 pp. 1–24 (1954).
[edit] External links
- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ricci-Curbastro.html.
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