Tullio Levi-Civita Scientist

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS (29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941; Italian pronunciation: [ˈleːvi ˈtʃivita]) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus. His work included foundational papers in both pure and applied mathematics, celestial mechanics (notably on the three-body problem), analytic mechanics (the Levi-Civita separability conditions in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation) and hydrodynamics.

Personal facts

Birth date	March 29, 1873
Birth place	Padua
Date of death	December 29, 1941
Place of death	Rome
Education	University of Padua
Known for	Tensor calculus Levi-Civita connection Levi-Civita (crater) Levi-Civita symbol Levi-Civita field

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doctoral advisor	Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
doctoral student	Gheorghe Vrânceanu Antonio Signorini Octav Onicescu Attilio Palatini Evan Davies (mathematician) Mendel Haimovici
Field of study	Mathematics