Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
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.
B
[edit]- Luigi Bianchi (Bianchi identities, Bianchi groups, differential geometry)
C
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Tevian Dray (The Geometry of General Relativity)
E
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Carl Friedrich Gauss (curvature, theory of surfaces, intrinsic vs. extrinsic)
K
[edit]- Martin Kruskal (inverse scattering transform; see also parent list)
L
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Alexander Macfarlane (space analysis and Algebra of Physics)
- Jerrold E. Marsden (linear stability)
N
[edit]- Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)
R
[edit]- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Ricci tensor, differential geometry)
- Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)
S
[edit]- Richard Schoen (Yamabe problem; see also parent list)
- Corrado Segre (Segre classification)
W
[edit]- 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)