Einstein's Italian mathematicians

By Judith R. Goodstein

Subjects: History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- 20th century, Mathematicians, biography, Biography, Italy, biography, Mathematics, History and biography -- Research exposition (monographs, survey articles), History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies, General relativity (physics), History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- 19th century, Calculus of tensors, Relativity and gravitational theory -- Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01), General relativity (Physics), Einstein, albert, 1879-1955, Mathematicians

Description: An exchange of information between Italian Tullio Levi-Civita and Hungarian born Theodore Von Kármán, based on mathematics by Italian Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, helped provide the mathematical background used by Albert Einstein in forming his general theory of relativity.