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    Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italian: [ɡreˈɡɔːrjo ˈrittʃi kurˈbastro]; 12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as...
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  • In differential geometry, the Ricci curvature tensor, named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, is a geometric object which is determined by a choice of Riemannian...
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  • (1904–1973), Italian mathematician Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925), Italian mathematician (Ricci curvature) Michelangelo Ricci (1619–82), Italian Cardinal...
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  • tensor calculus), tensor calculus or tensor analysis developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro in 1887–1896, and subsequently popularized in a paper written with...
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    made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus. His work included foundational...
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    they are often simply called "tensors". Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro popularised tensors in 1900 – continuing the earlier work of Bernhard...
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  • its properties as a tensor were understood by, in particular, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita, who first codified the notion of a tensor...
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  • Christoffel. Notably, significant advancements came through the work of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita, particularly in the form of absolute differential...
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  • was introduced by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita in the theory of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. Ricci and Levi-Civita (following...
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  • Variational Principles. Dover. p. 84,109. ISBN 978-0-486-65840-7. Ricci, Gregorio; Levi-Civita, Tullio (March 1900), "Méthodes de calcul différentiel...
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    physics indirectly influenced development of tensor calculus by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita. Beltrami was born in 1835 in Cremona (Lombardy)...
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  • Ricci-Curbastro (1896). "Dei sistemi di congruenze ortogonali in una varietà qualunque". Mem. Acc. Lincei. 2 (5): 276–322. H. Levy (1925). "Ricci's coefficients...
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    Riemann's perspective, and a year later Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro produced their textbook systematically developing the theory of...
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  • "discovered" by Elwin Bruno Christoffel. Levi-Civita, along with Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, used Christoffel's symbols to define the notion of parallel transport...
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  • achieving brevity. As part of mathematics it is a notational subset of Ricci calculus; however, it is often used in physics applications that do not...
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  • Spinor Pin group Pinors Spinor field Killing spinor Spin manifold Ricci, Gregorio; Levi-Civita, Tullio (March 1900), "Méthodes de calcul différentiel...
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    Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar Voigt Hermann Weyl...
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    Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar Voigt Hermann Weyl...
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    absolute differential calculus (now known as tensor calculus) by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and his student Tullio Levi-Civita between 1880 and the turn of...
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  • the Ricci tensor is a non-metric contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor, and the scalar curvature is the unique metric contraction of the Ricci tensor...
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    {\textstyle R_{\mu \nu }} is the Ricci tensor, R {\textstyle R} is the Ricci scalar (the tensor contraction of the Ricci tensor), g μ ν {\textstyle g_{\mu...
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    Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar Voigt Hermann Weyl...
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  • rather only how the shape of the body is distorted by the tidal force. The Ricci curvature, or trace component of the Riemann tensor contains precisely the...
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  • Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar Voigt Hermann Weyl...
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  • assume that the field equation for gravity relates this tensor and the Ricci tensor, which describes a particular class of tidal effects: the change...
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  • Baseball player from Venezuela Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925), Italian mathematician, inventor of tensor calculus Gregorio Salvador Caja (1927-2020)...
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    Christoffel's ideas were generalized and greatly developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and his student Tullio Levi-Civita, who turned them into the concept...
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    c}=n!} , where n is the number of dimensions, is a common "identity". The Ricci and Bianchi identities given in terms of the Riemann curvature tensor illustrate...
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  • Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar Voigt Hermann Weyl...
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    electromagnetism Electromagnetic stress–energy tensor Gluon field strength tensor Ricci calculus Riemann–Silberstein vector ^ By definition, T [ a b c ] = 1 3 ...
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