Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

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Italian mathematician human mathematician

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician best known as a founder of tensor calculus, which became fundamental to differential geometry and general relativity.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Italian mathematician → human → mathematician →
citizenship	Italy →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Italy → Kingdom of Sardinia →
dateOfBirth	1853-01-12 →
dateOfDeath	1925-08-06 →
describedBySource	Encyclopædia Britannica → Treccani Encyclopedia →
educatedAt	Sapienza University of Rome → Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa → University of Bologna → University of Rome →
employer	University of Padua →
familyName	Ricci-Curbastro →
fieldOfWork	differential geometry → mathematics → tensor calculus →
givenName	Gregorio →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Enrico Betti → Ulisse Dini →
hasCauseOfDeath	illness →
influenced	Albert Einstein → Tullio Levi-Civita →
knownFor	Ricci calculus → contributions to differential geometry → founding tensor calculus → influence on general relativity →
languageOfWorkOrName	French → Italian →
memberOf	Accademia dei Lincei → Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti →
nativeLanguage	Italian →
notableStudent	Tullio Levi-Civita →
notableWork	Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications →
occupation	university teacher →
partOf	history of differential geometry → history of tensor calculus →
placeOfBirth	Emilia-Romagna → Lugo → Province of Ravenna →
placeOfDeath	Bologna → Kingdom of Italy →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Padua →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Tullio Levi-Civita →	coAuthor
Ricci curvature tensor →	introducedBy
Ricci scalar →	namedAfter