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Einstein’s Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity
About this Title
Judith R. Goodstein, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year:
2018; Volume 113
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2846-4 (print); 978-1-4704-4859-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/113
MathSciNet review: MR3821554
MSC: Primary 01A70; Secondary 01A20, 01A60, 83-03
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- The Ricci of Lugo
- The making of a mathematician
- Munich
- Padua
- Math and marriage
- A promotion that wasn’t
- The absolute differential calculus
- The alter ego
- Intermezzo
- The indispensable mathematical tool
- “Write to me next time in Italian”
- Parallel displacements
- From Ricci’s absolute differential calculus to Einstein’s theorem for general relativity
- T. Levi-Civita, “Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro”
- Obituary of Tullio Levi-Civita