Levi-Civita's parallel displacement, affine connectedness, transfer principle: 1916/17--1922/23
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Levi-Civita's parallel displacement, affine connectedness, transfer principle: 1916/17--1922/23
zbMATH Open document ID: 0767.01023
DOI: 10.1007/BF00379682
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
review text: On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of death of Tullio Levi-Civita the author discusses the notion of affine connectedness, its history and fundamental results in this direction mostly obtained by Tullio Levi-Civita, Gerhard Hessenberg and Jan Arnoldus Schouten. The paper contains a chronologically ordered bibliography from 1917 to 1923.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53-03
zbMATH DE Number: 148373
zbMATH Keywords: affine connectedness
zbMATH Keywords: Gerhard Hessenberg
zbMATH Keywords: Jan Arnoldus Schouten
author: Karin Reich
reviewed by: Witold Więsław
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Q3518681
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