Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
| Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 January 1853 Lugo di Romagna |
| Died | 6 August 1925 (aged 72) Bologna |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Doctoral advisor |
Ulisse Dini Enrico Betti |
| Doctoral students | Tullio Levi-Civita |
| Known for |
Tensor calculus Ricci calculus |
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italian: [ɡreˈɡɔːrjo ˈrittʃi kurˈbastro]; 12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus, but also published important works in other fields.
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.
Born in lower Romagna. His family was amongst the most ancient and noble of the families of Lugo, and by tradition deeply Catholic.
When Pope Pius IX made his only journey to Romagna (1857), he stayed at Lugo at the family palace. This intense religious faith was an element which strongly characterized the whole life of Gregorio. Completing privately his high school studies at only sixteen years of age he enrolled on the course of philosophy-mathematics at Rome University (1869). The following year the Papal State fell and so Gregorio was called by his father to the city of his birth, Lugo. Subsequently he attended courses at Bologna, but after only one year he enrolled at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
In 1875, he graduated in Pisa in Physical Sciences and mathematics with a thesis on differential equations, entitled “On Fuches’s Research Concerning Linear Differential Equations”. During his various travels he was a student of mathematicians of the calibre of Enrico Betti, Eugenio Beltrami, Ulisse Dini and Felix Klein.
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