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Tullio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita, was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus. His work included foundational papers in both pure and applied mathematics, celestial mechanics, analyti…
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science · Italian mathematician (1873–1941) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · also Tullio Levi-Civita, Levi-Civita
Born 29 March 1873 · Died 29 December 1941 · Q353438
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-12-29.
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1936· 1 entry
Receiving an invitation from Einstein, Levi-Civita traveled to Princeton, United States and lived there with him for a year
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1933· 3 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1933).
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Levi-Civita contributed to Paul Dirac's equations in quantum mechanics as well
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Contributed to work on the Dirac equation
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1930).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1929).
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1922· 2 entries
Won Sylvester Medal (1922).
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And elected him as a foreign member in 1930
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1917· 1 entry
Introduced the notion of parallel transport in Riemannian geometry, motivated by the will to simplify the computation of the curvature of a Riemannian manifold
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1903· 1 entry
Awarded Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences (1903).
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1900· 1 entry
And Ricci-Curbastro published the theory of tensors in Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications, which Albert Einstein used as a resource to master tensor calculus, a critical tool in the developme
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1898· 1 entry
Was appointed to the Padova Chair of Rational Mechanics (left uncovered by death of Ernesto Padova) where he met and, in 1914, married Libera Trevisani, one of his students
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1894· 1 entry
Earned a teaching diploma after which he was appointed to the Faculty of Science teacher's college in Pavia
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1892· 1 entry
From the University of Padova Faculty of Mathematics
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-03-29.
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