Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Italian mathematician
Died when: 72 years 206 days (870 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italian: [gre'g??rjo 'ritt?i kur'bastro]; 12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician.He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
With his former student Tullio Levi-Civita, he wrote his most famous single publication, a pioneering work on the calculus of tensors, signing it as Gregorio Ricci.
This appears to be the only time that Ricci-Curbastro used the shortened form of his name in a publication, and continues to cause confusion.
Ricci-Curbastro also published important works in other fields, including a book on higher algebra and infinitesimal analysis, and papers on the theory of real numbers, an area in which he extended the research begun by Richard Dedekind.
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