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Hermann Weyl One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism Willem DeSitter Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space Georgio Ricci-Curbastro The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it. Hermann Minkowski A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography. Georg Riemann Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime. Karl Schwarzschild A brief biography with reference to contemporary mathematicians and theories. Karl Schwarzschild The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes Luigi Bianchi A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry Marcel Grossmann 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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