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Karl Schwarzschild A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories. Hermann Minkowski A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography. Hendrik Lorentz Brief biography. Aleksandr Friedmann A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references. Hermann Weyl One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism Marcel Grossmann A brief biography on Marcel Grossmann, a classmate of Einstein who was the first to find a connection between tensor calculus and the theory of relativity. Georg Riemann Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime. Willem DeSitter Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space Georgio Ricci-Curbastro The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it. Luigi Bianchi A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry |
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