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Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity

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This is a list of contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity. For ease of readability, the contributions (in brackets) are unlinked but can be found in the contributors' article.

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  • Luigi Bianchi (Bianchi identities, Bianchi groups, differential geometry)

    • C

  • Élie Cartan (curvature computation, early extensions of GTR, Cartan geometries)
  • Elwin Bruno Christoffel (connections, tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry)
  • Clarissa-Marie Claudel (Geometry of photon surfaces)

    • D

  • Tevian Dray (The Geometry of General Relativity)

    • E

  • Luther P. Eisenhart (semi-Riemannian geometries)
  • Frank B. Estabrook (Wahlquist-Estabrook approach to solving PDEs; see also parent list)
  • Leonhard Euler (Euler-Lagrange equation, from which the geodesic equation is obtained)

    • G

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss (curvature, theory of surfaces, intrinsic vs. extrinsic)

    • K

  • Martin Kruskal (inverse scattering transform; see also parent list)

    • L

  • Joseph Louis Lagrange (Lagrangian mechanics, Euler-Lagrange equation)
  • Tullio Levi-Civita (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry; see also parent list)
  • André Lichnerowicz (tensor calculus, transformation groups)

    • M

  • Alexander Macfarlane (space analysis and Algebra of Physics)
  • Jerrold E. Marsden (linear stability)

    • N

  • Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)

    • R

  • Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Ricci tensor, differential geometry)
  • Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)

    • S

  • Richard Schoen (Yamabe problem; see also parent list)
  • Corrado Segre (Segre classification)

    • W

  • Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist-Estabrook algorithm; see also parent list)
  • Hermann Weyl (Weyl tensor, gauge theories; see also parent list)
  • Eugene P. Wigner (stabilizers in Lorentz group)

    • References

    Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity Wikipedia
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