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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...
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  • integer n. It is named after the Italian mathematician and physicist Tullio Levi-Civita. Other names include the permutation symbol, antisymmetric symbol...
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  • symbols. The Levi-Civita connection is named after Tullio Levi-Civita, although originally "discovered" by Elwin Bruno Christoffel. Levi-Civita, along with...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    fields are so ubiquitous that they are often simply called "tensors". Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro popularised tensors in 1900 – continuing...
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  • advancements came through the work of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita, particularly in the form of absolute differential calculus within...
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  • spacetime). Developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and his student Tullio Levi-Civita, it was used by Albert Einstein to develop his general theory of relativity...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • {\varepsilon ^{i}}_{jk}=\delta ^{il}\varepsilon _{ljk}} εijk is the Levi-Civita symbol, and δil is the generalized Kronecker delta. Based on this definition...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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  • space was also discovered, independently, and about the same time, by Tullio Levi-Civita. De Sitter space can be defined as a submanifold of a generalized...
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  • 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...
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  • playwright and actor Tullio Lanese (born 1947), Italian football referee Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), Italian mathematician Tullio Liberati (born c. 1968)...
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  • Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita in the theory of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. Ricci and Levi-Civita (following ideas of Elwin...
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    Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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    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...
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    The covariant derivatives (also called "tangential derivatives") of Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro provide a means of differentiating smooth...
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    Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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    Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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    Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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  • compatible with the metric and torsion-free. This connection is called the Levi-Civita connection. The Christoffel symbols of this connection are given in terms...
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  • Italian neurologist Sara Levi-Tanai (1911–2005), Israeli choreographer Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), Italian mathematician Ya'akov Levi (born 1964), Israeli...
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  • transition functions, in much the same way as the Christoffel symbols for the Levi-Civita connection. The main tensorial invariant of a connection form is its...
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    Albert Einstein Leonhard Euler Carl Friedrich Gauss Hermann Grassmann Tullio Levi-Civita Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Bernhard Riemann Jan Arnoldus Schouten Woldemar...
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    remain parallel if they are transported along it. Applying this to the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian metric recovers the previous notion. Geodesics...
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  • redirect targets Exterior algebra – Algebra of exterior/ wedge products Levi-Civita symbol – Antisymmetric permutation object acting on tensors Ricci calculus –...
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