Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
Born	(1853-01-12)12 January 1853 Lugo di Romagna, Italy
Died	6 August 1925(1925-08-06) (aged 72) Bologna, Italy
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome University of Bologna Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Known for	Tensor calculus Covariant derivative Ricci calculus Ricci curvature Ricci decomposition Ricci grid Ricci identity
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Ulisse Dini Enrico Betti
Doctoral students	Tullio Levi-Civita
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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (Italian: [ɡreˈɡɔːrjo ˈrittʃi kurˈbastro]; 12 January 1853 – 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician.^[1] He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.

With his former student Tullio Levi-Civita, he wrote his most famous single publication,^[2] a pioneering work on the calculus of tensors, signing it as Gregorio Ricci. This appears to be the only time that Ricci-Curbastro used the shortened form of his name in a publication, and continues to cause confusion.

Ricci-Curbastro also published important works in other fields, including a book on higher algebra and infinitesimal analysis,^[3] and papers on the theory of real numbers, an area in which he extended the research begun by Richard Dedekind.^[4]