Tullio Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita
Born(1873-03-29)29 March 1873
Padua, Italy
Died29 December 1941(1941-12-29) (aged 68)
Rome, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Known for
AwardsSylvester Medal (1922)
FRS (1930)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rome
Doctoral advisorGregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Doctoral students

Tullio Levi-Civita, ForMemRS[1] (English: /ˈtʊli ˈlɛvi ˈɪvɪtə/, Italian: [ˈtulljo ˈlɛːvi ˈtʃiːvita]; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) 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)[2] and hydrodynamics.[3][4]

  1. ^ Tullio Levi-Civita. Nndb.com. Retrieved on 2011-08-14.
  2. ^ (Levi-Civita 1904)
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Tullio Levi-Civita", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ Tullio Levi-Civita at the Mathematics Genealogy Project