Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity
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- Luigi Bianchi (Bianchi identities, Bianchi groups, differential geometry)
- 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)
- Tevian Dray (The Geometry of General Relativity)
- Luther P. Eisenhart (semi-Riemannian geometries)
- Frank B. Estabrook (Wahlquist-Estabrook approach to solving PDEs)
- Leonhard Euler (Euler-Lagrange equation, from which the geodesic equation is obtained)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (curvature, theory of surfaces, intrinsic vs. extrinsic)
- Martin Kruskal (inverse scattering transform)
- Joseph Louis Lagrange (Lagrangian mechanics, Euler-Lagrange equation)
- Tullio Levi-Civita (tensor calculus, Riemannian geometry)
- André Lichnerowicz (tensor calculus, transformation groups)
- Alexander Macfarlane (space analysis and Algebra of Physics)
- Jerrold E. Marsden (linear stability)
- Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)
- Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Ricci tensor, differential geometry)
- Georg Bernhard Riemann (Riemannian geometry, Riemann curvature tensor)
- Richard Schoen (Yamabe problem)
- Corrado Segre (Segre classification)
- Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist-Estabrook algorithm)
- Hermann Weyl (Weyl tensor, gauge theories)
- Eugene P. Wigner (stabilizers in Lorentz group)