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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 226,754 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Tullio Levi-Civita is the 215th most popular mathematician (up from 229th in 2019), the 1,438th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,506th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 215 out of 823. Before him are S. R. Ranganathan, Élie Cartan, Henry Briggs, Xu Guangqi, Hermann Schwarz, and John Horton Conway. After him are Pedro Nunes, Hugo Steinhaus, Menaechmus, John Charles Fields, Gilles de Roberval, and Nikolay Bogolyubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 39. Before him are Ma Barker, Constantin Carathéodory, Lee de Forest, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Charles Péguy, and Ray Ewry. After him are Melitta Bentz, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Liang Qichao, Otto Wels, Jakob Wassermann, and Radoje Domanović. Among people deceased in 1941, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 49. Before him are Sisowath Monivong, Ernst Lindemann, Rudolf Hilferding, Ludwig Quidde, Paul-Jacques Curie, and Gaetano Mosca. After him are Hans Driesch, Lou Gehrig, Edwin S. Porter, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Maria Spiridonova, and Franz Gürtner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 1,438 out of 4,668. Before him are Renato Dulbecco (1914), Pietro II Orseolo (961), Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma (1889), Milo Manara (1945), Andrea Cesalpino (1519), and Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta (1841). After him are Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (1843), Altiero Spinelli (1907), Vittorio Storaro (1940), Giuliano Amato (1938), Leonardo Loredan (1436), and Vincent Pallotti (1795).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Tullio Levi-Civita ranks 20. Before him are Giambattista della Porta (1535), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), Scipione del Ferro (1465), and Paolo Ruffini (1765). After him are Giovanni Ceva (1647), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), and Enrico Bombieri (1940).

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