Einstein's Italian Mathematicians
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ISBN13: 9781470428464
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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.
| ISBN-13 | 9781470428464 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1470428466 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.00 x 0.50 x 10.00 In |
| List Price | $35.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 228 pages |
| Publisher | American Mathematical Society |
| Published On | 2018-08-30 |
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