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Title: Einstein's Italian Mathematicians
Condition: New
Subtitle: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity
EAN: 9781470428464
ISBN: 9781470428464
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 30/08/2018
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Weight: 450g
Author: Judith R. Goodstein
Genre: Biography
Book Series: Monograph Books
Release Year: 2018

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