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Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita
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Tullio Levi-Civita
Born (1873-03-29)29 March 1873
Padua, Italy
Died 29 December 1941(1941-12-29) (aged 68)
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Rome
Alma mater University of Padua
Doctoral advisor Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Doctoral students
Other notable students Giulio Krall
Known for

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS/ˈtʊli ˈlɛvi ˈɪvtə/ (29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941; Italian pronunciation: [ˈtullio ˈlɛːvi ˈtʃiːvita]) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor 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 (notably on the three-body problem), analytic mechanics (the Levi-Civita separability conditions in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation) and hydrodynamics.


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