Einstein's Italian Mathematicians : Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity Paperback / softback
by Judith R. Goodstein
Part of the Monograph Books series
Paperback / softback
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In the first decade of the twentieth century as Albert Einstein began formulating a revolutionary theory of gravity, the Italian mathematician Gregorio Ricci was entering the later stages of what appeared to be a productive if not particularly memorable career, devoted largely to what his colleagues regarded as the dogged development of a mathematical language he called the absolute differential calculus.
In 1912, the work of these two dedicated scientists would intersect-and physics and mathematics would never be the same.
Einstein's Italian Mathematicians chronicles the lives and intellectual contributions of Ricci and his brilliant student Tullio Levi-Civita, including letters, interviews, memoranda, and other personal and professional papers, to tell the remarkable, little-known story of how two Italian academicians, of widely divergent backgrounds and temperaments, came to provide the indispensable mathematical foundation-today known as the tensor calculus-for general relativity.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:227 pages
- Publisher:American Mathematical Society
- Publication Date:30/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781470428464
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:227 pages
- Publisher:American Mathematical Society
- Publication Date:30/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781470428464
