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A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories.
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Schwarzschild Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Karl Schwarzschild's parents were Henrietta Sabel and Moses Martin Schwarzschild. The family was Jewish, with Karl's father...A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
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Minkowski Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Hermann Minkowski's parents were Lewin Minkowski, a businessman, and Rachel Taubmann. Hermann was his parents second son,...Brief biography.
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Lorentz Click the picture above to see nine larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Hendrik Lorentz attended Mr Timmer's Primary School in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when...A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
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Friedmann Click the picture above to see a larger version Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Alexander Friedmann's date of birth is often given as 29 June. However this is an error which...One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
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Weyl Click the picture above to see eight larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Hermann Weyl was known as Peter to his close friends. His parents were Anna Dieck and Ludwig...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.
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Grossmann Click the picture above to see a larger version Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Marcel Grossmann attended school in Basel then studied mathematics at Zurich. In 1900 he became an assistant...Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime.
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Riemann Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Bernhard Riemann's father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a Lutheran minister. Friedrich Riemann married Charlotte Ebell when he...Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
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Sitter Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Willem De Sitter studied mathematics at Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at...The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
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Ricci-Curbastro Click the picture above to see a larger version Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro's father was Antonio Ricci-Curbastro and his mother was Livia Vecchi. It was a family of...A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
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Bianchi Click the picture above to see a larger version Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Luigi Bianchi was educated at a school in Parma, then at the Scuola Normale Superiore before undertaking...The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
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