Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
This is a list of contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity.
B
- Luigi Bianchi (Bianchi identities, Bianchi groups, differential geometry)
C
- Élie Cartan (curvature computation, early extensions of GTR, Cartan geometries)
- Elwin Bruno Christoffel (connections, tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry)
E
- Luther P. Eisenhart (semi-Riemannian geometries)
- Frank B. Estabrook (Wahlquist-Estabrook approach to solving PDEs; see also parent list)
- Leonhard Euler (Euler-Lagrange equation, from which the geodesic equation is obtained)
G
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (curvature, theory of surfaces, intrinsic vs. extrinsic)
K
- Martin Kruskal (inverse scattering transform; see also parent list)
L
- Joseph Louis Lagrange (Lagrangian mechanics, Euler-Lagrange equation)
- Tullio Levi-Civita (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry; see also parent list)
M
- J. B. Marsden (linear stability)
N
- Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)
R
- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Ricci tensor, differential geometry)
- Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)
S
- Richard Schoen (Yamabe problem; see also parent list)
- Corrado Segre (Segre classification)
W
- Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist-Estabrook algorithm; see also parent list)
- Hermann Weyl (Weyl tensor, gauge theories; see also parent list)
- Eugene P. Wigner (stabilizers in Lorentz group)