Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italian: [ɡreˈɡɔːrjo ˈrittʃi kurˈbastro]; 12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro | |
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| Born | 12 January 1853 Lugo di Romagna, Italy |
| Died | 6 August 1925 (aged 72) Bologna, Italy |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome University of Bologna Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Known for | Tensor calculus Covariant derivative Ricci calculus Ricci curvature Ricci decomposition Ricci grid Ricci identity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Ulisse Dini Enrico Betti |
| Doctoral students | Tullio Levi-Civita |
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With his former student Tullio Levi-Civita, he wrote his most famous single publication, a pioneering work on the calculus of tensors, signing it as Gregorio Ricci. This appears to be the only time that Ricci-Curbastro used the shortened form of his name in a publication, and continues to cause confusion.
Ricci-Curbastro also published important works in other fields, including a book on higher algebra and infinitesimal analysis, and papers on the theory of real numbers, an area in which he extended the research begun by Richard Dedekind.
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