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Tullio Levi-Civita

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Italian mathematician and physicist (1873-1941)

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Tullio Levi-Civita, 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.

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1933doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
1930Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1929honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
1922Sylvester Medal
1903Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences

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Tullio Levi-Civita, 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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Lived 1873 to 1941 · aged 68
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