Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Tullio Levi-Civita

Index Tullio Levi-Civita

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS (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. [1]

64 relations: Accademia dei Lincei, Albert Einstein, Albert Joseph McConnell, American Mathematical Society, Antonio Signorini, Applied mathematics, Attilio Palatini, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Celestial mechanics, Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Dirac equation, Doctor of Philosophy, Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Electromagnetism, Ernesto Padova, Evan Tom Davies, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fluid dynamics, General relativity, Gheorghe Vrânceanu, Gravitational field, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Hamilton–Jacobi equation, Infinitesimal, Italian Racial Laws, Italy, Judaism, Levi-Civita (crater), Levi-Civita connection, Levi-Civita field, Levi-Civita parallelogramoid, Levi-Civita symbol, Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita, London Mathematical Society, Mathematician, Mathematics, Mathematische Annalen, Monograph, Octav Onicescu, Padua, Paul Dirac, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Princeton University, Pure mathematics, Quantum mechanics, Ricci calculus, Riemannian geometry, Rome, Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, ..., Sapienza University of Rome, Senate of the Republic (Italy), Sylvester Medal, Tensor, Tensor calculus, Textbook, Theory of relativity, Three-body problem, Treatise, Typographical error, University of Michigan, University of Padua, University of St Andrews, Vito Volterra. Expand index (14 more) »

Accademia dei Lincei

The Accademia dei Lincei (literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is an Italian science academy, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Accademia dei Lincei · See more »

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Albert Einstein · See more »

Albert Joseph McConnell

Albert Joseph McConnell (1903 – 1993) was an Irish Professor in Mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Albert Joseph McConnell · See more »

American Mathematical Society

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and American Mathematical Society · See more »

Antonio Signorini

Antonio Signorini (2 April 1888 – 23 February 1963) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Antonio Signorini · See more »

Applied mathematics

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as science, engineering, business, computer science, and industry.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Applied mathematics · See more »

Attilio Palatini

Attilio Palatini (18 November 1889 – 24 August 1949) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Attilio Palatini · See more »

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society · See more »

Celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Celestial mechanics · See more »

Circolo Matematico di Palermo

The Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Mathematical Circle of Palermo) is an Italian mathematical society, founded in Palermo by Sicilian geometer Giovanni B. Guccia in 1884.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Circolo Matematico di Palermo · See more »

Dirac equation

In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Dirac equation · See more »

Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Doctor of Philosophy · See more »

Edinburgh Mathematical Society

The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Edinburgh Mathematical Society · See more »

Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Electromagnetism · See more »

Ernesto Padova

Ernesto Padova (17 February 1845 – 9 March 1896) was an Italian mathematician born in Livorno.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Ernesto Padova · See more »

Evan Tom Davies

Evan Tom Davies (24 September 1904 – 8 October 1973) was a Welsh mathematician and linguist.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Evan Tom Davies · See more »

Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Fellow of the Royal Society · See more »

Fluid dynamics

In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Fluid dynamics · See more »

General relativity

General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and General relativity · See more »

Gheorghe Vrânceanu

Gheorghe Vrânceanu (June 30, 1900, Valea Hogei, Lipova, Bacău County – April 27, 1979, Bucharest) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Gheorghe Vrânceanu · See more »

Gravitational field

In physics, a gravitational field is a model used to explain the influence that a massive body extends into the space around itself, producing a force on another massive body.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Gravitational field · See more »

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (12January 1925) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro · See more »

Hamilton–Jacobi equation

In mathematics, the Hamilton–Jacobi equation (HJE) is a necessary condition describing extremal geometry in generalizations of problems from the calculus of variations, and is a special case of the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Hamilton–Jacobi equation · See more »

Infinitesimal

In mathematics, infinitesimals are things so small that there is no way to measure them.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Infinitesimal · See more »

Italian Racial Laws

The Italian Racial Laws (Leggi razziali) were a set of laws promulgated by Fascist Italy from 1938 to 1943 to enforce racial discrimination in Italy, directed mainly against the Italian Jews and the native inhabitants of the colonies.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Italian Racial Laws · See more »

Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Italy · See more »

Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Judaism · See more »

Levi-Civita (crater)

Levi-Civita is a lunar impact crater formation that lies on the far side of the Moon, and is named after Tullio Levi-Civita.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Levi-Civita (crater) · See more »

Levi-Civita connection

In Riemannian geometry, the Levi-Civita connection is a specific connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Levi-Civita connection · See more »

Levi-Civita field

In mathematics, the Levi-Civita field, named after Tullio Levi-Civita, is a non-Archimedean ordered field; i.e., a system of numbers containing infinite and infinitesimal quantities.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Levi-Civita field · See more »

Levi-Civita parallelogramoid

In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Levi-Civita parallelogramoid is a quadrilateral in a curved space whose construction generalizes that of a parallelogram in the Euclidean plane.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Levi-Civita parallelogramoid · See more »

Levi-Civita symbol

In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, tensor analysis, and differential geometry, the Levi-Civita symbol represents a collection of numbers; defined from the sign of a permutation of the natural numbers, for some positive integer.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Levi-Civita symbol · See more »

Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita

Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita (17 May 1890 – 11 December 1973) was an Italian mathematician born in Verona.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Libera Trevisani Levi-Civita · See more »

London Mathematical Society

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)).

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and London Mathematical Society · See more »

Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Mathematician · See more »

Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Mathematics · See more »

Mathematische Annalen

Mathematische Annalen (abbreviated as Math. Ann. or, formerly, Math. Annal.) is a German mathematical research journal founded in 1868 by Alfred Clebsch and Carl Neumann.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Mathematische Annalen · See more »

Monograph

A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author, and usually on a scholarly subject.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Monograph · See more »

Octav Onicescu

Octav Onicescu (August 20, 1892 – August 19, 1983) was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Octav Onicescu · See more »

Padua

Padua (Padova; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Padua · See more »

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Paul Dirac · See more »

Pontifical Academy of Sciences

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Pontificia accademia delle scienze, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum) is a scientific academy of the Vatican City, established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI, and thriving with the blessing of the Papacy ever since.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Pontifical Academy of Sciences · See more »

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Princeton University · See more »

Pure mathematics

Broadly speaking, pure mathematics is mathematics that studies entirely abstract concepts.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Pure mathematics · See more »

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Quantum mechanics · See more »

Ricci calculus

In mathematics, Ricci calculus constitutes the rules of index notation and manipulation for tensors and tensor fields.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Ricci calculus · See more »

Riemannian geometry

Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric, i.e. with an inner product on the tangent space at each point that varies smoothly from point to point.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Riemannian geometry · See more »

Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Rome · See more »

Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Royal Society · See more »

Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Royal Society of Edinburgh · See more »

Sapienza University of Rome

The Sapienza University of Rome (Italian: Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, is a collegiate research university located in Rome, Italy.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Sapienza University of Rome · See more »

Senate of the Republic (Italy)

The Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) or Senate (Senato) is a house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Chamber of Deputies).

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Senate of the Republic (Italy) · See more »

Sylvester Medal

The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society (London) for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Sylvester Medal · See more »

Tensor

In mathematics, tensors are geometric objects that describe linear relations between geometric vectors, scalars, and other tensors.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Tensor · See more »

Tensor calculus

In mathematics, tensor calculus or tensor analysis is an extension of vector calculus to tensor fields (tensors that may vary over a manifold, e.g. in spacetime).

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Tensor calculus · See more »

Textbook

A textbook or coursebook (UK English) is a manual of instruction in any branch of study.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Textbook · See more »

Theory of relativity

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Theory of relativity · See more »

Three-body problem

In physics and classical mechanics, the three-body problem is the problem of taking an initial set of data that specifies the positions, masses, and velocities of three bodies for some particular point in time and then determining the motions of the three bodies, in accordance with Newton's laws of motion and of universal gravitation, which are the laws of classical mechanics.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Three-body problem · See more »

Treatise

A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Treatise · See more »

Typographical error

A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called misprint, is a mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Typographical error · See more »

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and University of Michigan · See more »

University of Padua

The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and University of Padua · See more »

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and University of St Andrews · See more »

Vito Volterra

Vito Volterra (3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.

New!!: Tullio Levi-Civita and Vito Volterra · See more »

Redirects here:

Levi civita, Levi-Civita, Tullio Levi Civita, Tullio Levi-Cività, Tullio levi-civita.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Levi-Civita

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »