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پدید آورنده
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رده
QA28 .G66 2018
QA28
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G66
2018
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1470428466
(Number (ISBN
9781470428464
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Einstein's Italian mathematicians :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the birth of general relativity /
First Statement of Responsibility
Judith R. Goodstein.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Providence, Rhode Island :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
American Mathematical Society,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2018
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
26 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
The Riccis of Lugo -- The making of a mathematician -- Munich -- Padua -- Math and marriage -- A promotion that wasn't -- The absolute differential calculus -- The alter ego -- Intermezzo -- The indispensable mathematical tool -- "Write to me next time in Italian" -- Parallel displacements -- Appendices.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
An exchange of information between Italian Tullio Levi-Civita and Hungarian born Theodore Von Kármán, based on mathematics by Italian Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, helped provide the mathematical background used by Albert Einstein in forming his general theory of relativity.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Einstein, Albert,1879-1955.
Levi-Civita, Tullio,1873-1941.
Ricci Curbastro, Gregorio,1853-1925.
Von Kármán, Theodore,1881-1963.
Einstein, Albert,1879-1955.
Levi-Civita, Tullio,1873-1941.
Ricci Curbastro, Gregorio,1853-1925.
Von Kármán, Theodore,1881-1963.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Calculus of tensors.
General relativity (Physics)-- Mathematics.
Mathematicians-- Italy, Biography.
Calculus of tensors.
General relativity (Physics)-- Mathematics.
History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- 19th century.
History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- 20th century.
History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies.
History and biography -- Research exposition (monographs, survey articles).
Mathematicians.
MATHEMATICS / Calculus.
Relativity and gravitational theory -- Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01).
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Italy.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
510
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92/245
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA28
Book number
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G66
2018
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
83-03
System Code
msc
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Goodstein, Judith R.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200823025732.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
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Electronic name
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