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Tullio Levi-Civita

1873 - 1941

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Tullio Levi-Civita, (English: , Italian: [ˈtulljo ˈlɛːvi ˈtʃiːvita]; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tullio Levi-Civita has received more than 243,708 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Tullio Levi-Civita is the 204th most popular mathematician (up from 215th in 2019), the 1,349th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,434th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 204 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Karaji, Laurent Schwartz, Pedro Nunes, Theodorus of Cyrene, Richard von Mises, and Paul Guldin. After him are Paolo Ruffini, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Michael Atiyah, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, and Constantin Carathéodory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 37. Before him are Ivanoe Bonomi, Charles Péguy, Ray Ewry, Lee de Forest, Alexander Bogdanov, and Radoje Domanović. After him are Robert Wiene, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Constantin Carathéodory, Jakob Wassermann, Eliel Saarinen, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. Among people deceased in 1941, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 45. Before him are Mikhail Kirponos, Émile Bernard, Gottfried Feder, Frederick Griffith, Annie Jump Cannon, and Dmitry Pavlov. After him are Rudolf Hilferding, Paul-Jacques Curie, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, and Maria Spiridonova.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 1,349 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucifer of Cagliari (201), Antipope Innocent III (1150), Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882), Pompeo Batoni (1708), Boris Pahor (1913), and Domitia Longina (100). After him are Bernardo Daddi (1290), Sabrina Salerno (1968), Ludovico Manin (1725), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), Paolo Ruffini (1765), and Vittorio Alfieri (1749).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 20. Before him are Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Scipione del Ferro (1465), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), and Giovanni Ceva (1647). After him are Paolo Ruffini (1765), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), and Enrico Bombieri (1940).

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