Schouten, Levi-Civita and the notion of parallelism in Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2016.08.003zbMath1354.01013OpenAlexW2508416148WikidataQ115352532 ScholiaQ115352532MaRDI QIDQ346670

Alberto Cogliati

Publication date: 29 November 2016

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2016.08.003

zbMATH Keywords

curvaturehistory of differential geometryLevi-Civita's parallelism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of differential geometry (53-03)

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• On the role of virtual work in Levi-Civita's parallel transport
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• Dirk Jan Struik and his contributions to the history of mathematics
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• The attraction of gravitation: new studies in the history of general relativity
• Ricci-Calculus

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