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Tullio Levi-Civita, ForMemRS (English: /ˈtʊlioʊ ˈlɛvi ˈtʃɪvɪtə/, Italian: [ˈtulljo ˈlɛːvi ˈtʃiːvita]; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) was an Italian...

integer n. It is named after the Italian mathematician and physicist Tullio Levi-Civita. Other names include the permutation symbol, antisymmetric symbol...

symbols. The Levi-Civita connection is named after Tullio Levi-Civita, although originally "discovered" by Elwin Bruno Christoffel. Levi-Civita, along with...

famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus. With his former student Tullio Levi-Civita, he wrote his most famous single publication, a pioneering work on...

In mathematics, the Levi-Civita field, named after Tullio Levi-Civita, is a non-Archimedean ordered field; i.e., a system of numbers containing infinite...

fields are so ubiquitous that they are often simply called "tensors". Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro popularised tensors in 1900 – continuing...

advancements came through the work of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita, particularly in the form of absolute differential calculus within...

1887–1896, and subsequently popularized in a paper written with his pupil Tullio Levi-Civita in 1900. Jan Arnoldus Schouten developed the modern notation and formalism...

tensor were understood by, in particular, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita, who first codified the notion of a tensor. The metric tensor is an...

1873) 1941 – Louis Eilshemius, American painter (b. 1864) 1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873) 1943 – Art Young, American...

k {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{\,jk}^{i}=\varepsilon _{ijk}} is the Levi-Civita symbol. Since the basis is orthonormal, raising the index i {\displaystyle...

parallelogram in the Euclidean plane. It is named for its discoverer, Tullio Levi-Civita. Like a parallelogram, two opposite sides AA′ and BB′ of a parallelogramoid...

upside-down U-shaped loop, depending on the type of tensor that is used. The Levi-Civita antisymmetric tensor is represented by a thick horizontal bar with sticks...

the University of Padova, under the guidance of the mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita, with a thesis titled Sul moto medio dei nodi nel problema dei tre...

space was also discovered, independently, and about the same time, by Tullio Levi-Civita. A de Sitter space can be defined as a submanifold of a generalized...

playwright and actor Tullio Lanese (born 1947), Italian football referee Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), Italian mathematician Tullio Liberati (born c. 1968)...

Levi-Civita is a lunar impact crater formation that lies on the far side of the Moon. It was named after Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita. It...

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita in the theory of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. Ricci and Levi-Civita (following ideas of Elwin...

cricketer Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Italian neurologist Sara Levi-Tanai (1911–2005), Israeli choreographer Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), Italian...

The covariant derivatives (also called "tangential derivatives") of Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro provide a means of differentiating smooth...