Tullio Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita
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	Evan Tom Davies Mendel Haimovici Albert Joseph McConnell Octav Onicescu Attilio Palatini Antonio Signorini Libera Trevisani Gheorghe Vrânceanu
Other notable students	Giulio Krall
Known for	Tensor calculus Levi-Civita symbol Levi-Civita connection Levi-Civita field

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS/ˈtʊlioʊ ˈlɛvi ˈtʃɪvᵻtə/ (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.