Einstein's Italian Mathematicians - Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	American Mathematical Society
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Monograph Books
Release date:	August 2018
Authors:	Judith R. Goodstein
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	227
ISBN-13:	978-1-4704-2846-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4704-2846-6
Barcode:	9781470428464

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