Tullio Levi-Civita

Mathematician, Academic

1873 – 1941

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Who was Tullio Levi-Civita?

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential 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, analytic mechanics and hydrodynamics.

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Born
Mar 29, 1873
Padua
Nationality
  • Italy
Profession
Education
  • University of Padua
Lived in
  • Padua
Died
Dec 29, 1941
Rome

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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